Comment on Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips

Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, so something’s profitability depends on relative extracted value from what it does. If your technology allows to, say, predict a person for 5-10 years forward in their decisions and reactions, the value extracted for that amount of calculations will be enormous. About what that person is worth.

  And, note, this becomes more efficient with scale.

  And gentle curve of scale is what this technology brings new to computing - data is like oil, hardware is like processing machinery, resulting predictions and extrapolations are fuel that makes those possessing it more powerful.

  This is both more similar in application to early computers used for planning and air defense than much of computing history, and more accessible for comprehension by human mind without deep understanding of computing.

  It’s a machine that answers questions based on data. It might sometimes answer them badly. But it answers questions better than a dice roll, and it does that for questions a human might not answer at all.

  In other words, they are building a death star. Sleep well everyone.

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