I really hope so but I can’t help but to think that they are going to drag it for as long as possible, because no matter how bad the situation is for the common folk, they are still going to make a profit off of it.
God I hope so
MadBits@europe.pub 4 weeks ago
ulterno@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Yeah. The current job market shows a different trend.
With people saying “people using AI will replace people not using AI”.
And the reason for that is not because people using AI will produce better work, but because AI usage will be preferred over usable output.And because the flow of money is such that all those having money can easily choose to give most of it to AI users^[with the only exception being base material products like agricultural produce, which has a much lower margin and their costs again go to AI users] while non-AI users don’t have the same ability once most providers turn to AI use.
Now as long as you get the Governments on board (they are already buying up GPUs too) you can get all taxes into AI use, hence starving the non-AI market of ability to procure computing hardware (or anything else to work on) and that is how you get AI supremacy without providing anything better.
jaykrown@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
All of that is speculation, none of it true. I’m an AI user, where’s my money?
ulterno@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I’m an AI user, where’s my money?
While I was actually looking for someone to break my model with a better one with better info, this is a pretty useless argument.
To get money, you need to:
- make some half-baked product with chutzpah
- Use charisma to get others to vibe with it on a social media platform
- this is easy if you know how to do the social acting that “normies” do
- Appeal to the ones in power, while convincing them that you used AI to make it, will be using more AI and will do some subscription stuff
- Find a way to inherit Venture Capital.
jaykrown@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
To be clear, that doesn’t mean AI is going away. It just means no one is actually going to pay for AI models anymore because open-weight free models will be extremely cheap and powerful.
iglou@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
It also means that AI in places where it brings nothing and in many cases make the product actually worse will disappear
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
How is anyone going to run those powerful models locally if the hardware is unaffordable/unobtainable?
No one is going to pay for AI it because no one wants it to begin with.
jj4211@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In this scenario, you have a number of these AI companies contributing to the hoarding having their equipment handled through ‘asset recovery’, which means that at least companies that can drive 15kw to a system and water cooling will probably get them on the cheap and run it on their premise, or in a colo. Maybe some of those parts will trickle down, but admittedly a good chunk of the stuff is hard to accommodate in a residential setting.
Longer term, the hardware becomes obtainable as supply chains re-calibrate back to identcal or more close solutions. Ten years ago, a datacenter GPU was likely to be same hardware as consumer, but with a different thermal solution, firmware, and the video ports unpopulated. The AI rush has made them shift to exotic packaging so they can have absurdly unreasonable wattage in small places that doesn’t work in home settings. I anticipate a swing back that way eventually.