• Doomsider@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 hours ago

    Guys! If we donate all our RAM then Sam will be able to build the AI that will destroy our civilization even sooner.

  • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Why can there be no peer to peer sharing of hardware on which people run AI? Decentralize it, no tech CEO clowns needed.

    • phx@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Because typically the resources for a particular AI job need to be centralized in order to obtain usable speeds. Even a machine with a decent 16GB GPU is going to lose speed swapping in and out of system RAM - though it does allow for larger models - so machines in a LAN can’t currently split the workloads without significant efficiency losses. It’s also why AI boards are typically using soldered LPDDR rather than swappable DIMM’s (can’t get an AI CPU with a non-soldered board).

      Peers over the Internet would be abysmally slow or untenable for many workloads, at least with the way a lot of stuff is built currently.

      HOWEVER, that’s assuming monolithic non-specialized/optimized models. In the future as we see models built and trained for more specific jobs, it should be possible to have individual students run more as specialists and swap data. There are models that are specialized currently but not really an ecosystem for them:

      • General LLM/Chat or
      • Image recognition
      • Image generation
      • 3D Spatial navigation/manipulation
      • Code generation/processing
      • Network analysis
      • Audio processing/generation
      • Etc

      If we think of something like creating an MMO (and assuming we didn’t include the moral issues of AI generation), then a pipeline could have different assets building a soundtrack, 3d models, scenes/animation per a script, character voicing, various dialog, 3d world space mechanics, etc all running from different clustered machines

  • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    7 hours ago

    Hot take: Sam altman doesnt know anything about pcs and doesnt own one. he is a technophobic idiot that somehow talked a softbrain into giving him his position.

    Now drunk on power he lost control of his mouth and doesnt know it from his asshole

    OR

    He is still a technophobe and also a puppet idiot and pissed off an internal tech. tech person got their revenge by feeding him this line. tech person really wants him fired.

    I can go deeper: the others around sam altman hate him also and appreciate tech person for giving them a perfect reason for sam’s oust. Shortly after this Sam gets voted out for ‘insert conflict of interest reason’

  • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    12 hours ago

    I’m thankful I rebuilt my rig during the incredibly brief period during COVID where RAM was cheap as chips and mid tier GPUs were under $500.

    Outside of Fallout and KCD2, I don’t play anything graphically intensive, so hopefully I’m good for another 5-10 years.

    Wishful thinking, I know. But I’ve had periods where I simply didn’t have a gaming box that could run new hotness so I ignored the industry.

    Got a lot of reading done. Maybe this is for the best.

    • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 hours ago

      I sold an arm and a leg to do a build this year, accepting the cost because it’s probably the last one I’ll ever be able to do and if I didn’t strike I now it wouldn’t be an option at all soon

    • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
      2·
      11 hours ago

      I did mine end of 2021/beginning of 2022, these days I actually use my LCD steam deck for most everything and even then I’ll often stream from my desktop. Right now I’m on a morrowind kick so playing a nearly 25 year old game, deck handles openmw and mods amazing.

      I have a huge backlog already so don’t feel compelled to buy a lot of new stuff and I’m just not keeping up with what’s hot anymore. I have other hobbies than gaming as well, other reason I’ve really liked having the steam deck is it’s easy to pause and come back later if you want.

  • Gomiboy@lemmy.world
    5·
    13 hours ago

    We have allowed these tech-bro fascist retards to control every aspect of our digital lives, plunging us toward an anti consumer subscription model for every digital commodity, stripping us of autonomy and agency as a consumer.

    • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      12 hours ago

      Slightly unrelated, but the most disturbing part of 1984 for me was that the protagonist had to buy a blank notebook as contraband and use a blind spot in his apartment to write in it.