Comment on Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead
Zetta@mander.xyz 3 days agoI’m pretty sure the massive buildout is for training new models. Their justification is they need more compute to get the superhuman level intelligence AIs that they have been claiming. So if that pans out their probably gonna be fine, but seems unlikely that’ll pan out how they want it to
piranhaconda@mander.xyz 3 days ago
It’s the grift that keeps on grifting. How long can it keep going
Zetta@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Broadly speaking, yes, and it’ll keep going until they run out of money. However, I think there is a very small chance that one of the companies is able to make a breakthrough probably with a different kind of architecture than our current LLMs that does get us to models that make genuine discoveries and breakthroughs.
Very unlikely though.
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 days ago
At which point the government will step in because they will have become too big to fail
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Partially correct. They’ll step in because they signed contracts and have moved AI under the umbrella of National Security. Brockman donated $25m back in September. Trump signed Project Genesis in November. So all these hardware companies feel pretty good because it’ll be backed by taxpayers.