Post AiYTOIPf8pk5fEbKr2 by inertia@pone.social
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(DIR) Post #AiYStmOVcactflVhNg by inertia@pone.social
2024-06-03T15:37:30Z
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Pure cope. Ain't no one upgrading their PC to get an AI co-processor lol. No one cares.Or am I wrong?
(DIR) Post #AiYT2mvR14W9vTCsAi by Inginsub@clubcyberia.co
2024-06-03T15:40:42.585536Z
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@inertia >decline in personal computer sales that’s because everyone is broke, no AI chip will fix that
(DIR) Post #AiYT9KDW9ScsupmX5M by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2024-06-03T15:41:42.331498Z
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@inertia Normies will eat it up.
(DIR) Post #AiYTFf2nd6ZBFOn1RQ by inertia@pone.social
2024-06-03T15:42:46Z
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@Inginsub yeah that and that there hasn't been a big need to upgrade in a long time. (or maybe I've grown out of touch. Still rocking my 1070)
(DIR) Post #AiYTOIPf8pk5fEbKr2 by inertia@pone.social
2024-06-03T15:44:16Z
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@Zergling_man I doubt it. Normies do mainstream things. AI assistants aren't mainstream.
(DIR) Post #AiYTQd2zOWlKEu6m92 by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2024-06-03T15:45:00.223455Z
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@inertia Suit normies.
(DIR) Post #AiYTaODBPLOf7iWxWq by inertia@pone.social
2024-06-03T15:46:28Z
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@Zergling_man well... I wouldn't mind getting a new business laptop.
(DIR) Post #AiYU13zuffYmFX2iTg by Forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co
2024-06-03T15:50:58.929840Z
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@Zergling_man @inertia Thermals of the mobile variants of the chips are gonna suckn hard, I imagine. Which is what normies dislike, loud and hot computers.
(DIR) Post #AiYU1WwN3uxS0wbnU0 by EvilSandmich@poa.st
2024-06-03T15:51:50.088770Z
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@inertia My thinking is that AI will be like a lot of other new-tech in that it way overpromises and underdelivers at the outset, but after four or five years a lot of it's promise will actually come into being. There are many examples but possibly one best known is the smartphone not coming into it's own until the iPhone4 was released. I count last year as the first year of user accessible AI, and we'll see how it goes but it wouldn't be too surprising.
(DIR) Post #AiYU3vvp7I3M6OUxoe by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2024-06-03T15:52:07.204181Z
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@Forestofenchantment @inertia Why make mobile variants? Just install them in the cloud.
(DIR) Post #AiYU9tPLPfv80o9FYm by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2024-06-03T15:53:10.007926Z
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@inertia @Forestofenchantment Like... You leave your PC on, it runs your assistant, Microdick runs a service that the assistant subscribes to to push data, fone subscribes to to fetch data and push new requests.Microdick gets to slurp it all up on the way through.
(DIR) Post #AiYULcVW4fpP4Tcwc4 by EvilSandmich@poa.st
2024-06-03T15:55:22.953699Z
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@Xenophon @inertia That's the optimists take, the pessimist thinks that people would outsource the blowing of their noses to technology if there was a way to do it.
(DIR) Post #AiYUSRFWKVN8BMOduK by Forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co
2024-06-03T15:54:57.896070Z
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@Zergling_man @inertia Intel's working on them rn. Dunno the exact use case.
(DIR) Post #AiYUVXLW7QFfxYg8uW by PunishedD@clubcyberia.co
2024-06-03T15:56:24.355759Z
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@inertia @Inginsub Gaming and Windows versions were the only thing driving upgrades for a decade. Covid bumped up the number of people working from home, it was a 1 time surge, not technology-driven growth.Now game graphics have plateaued, new games aren't requiring huge upgrades, and indie/retro games with lower graphics requirements are popular. And only about 22% of Windows users have upgraded to Win 11, and its market share started declining. AI is the only thing taxing current setups or suggesting any resource use growth.I'd keep my current rig going for another 5 years, comfortably, but if someone makes a decent drop-in AI co-processor I wouldn't mind picking one up. I'm not buying some normie-friendly pre-made AI PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER package though.
(DIR) Post #AiYUjmwwtvrCPLz0LY by inertia@pone.social
2024-06-03T15:59:17Z
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@PunishedD @Inginsub On the business side, AI is the next big thing after Big Data to drive up cloud bills. Now companies finally have a reason to spend big on compute.
(DIR) Post #AiYUvUcqr79p3GACoa by lonelyowl13@detroitriotcity.com
2024-06-03T16:01:26.897668Z
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@Zergling_man @inertia Normies won't need it. Normies hate gen ai after all, you know. But people like me will be happy if vendors will provide a good tpu by a reasonable price.
(DIR) Post #AiYUzMhQGdPxcw9FGC by white_male@poa.st
2024-06-03T16:02:34.043817Z
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@Xenophon @EvilSandmich @inertia Everything will get AI extensions, period. It will be included in CPUs, GPUs and itself in AI accelerators, which only nerds and professionals will get.Also it makes sense for many things.Use Lunix if you want to have control over what it does.
(DIR) Post #AiYVCLdLXbTS5PQrAW by Felix_Krull@poa.st
2024-06-03T16:04:01.233060Z
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@EvilSandmich @inertia And the MP3-player. Worst money I ever spent was $1,500 on a Sony device. It could store an album worth of music but here's the catch: you had to import your album into some Sony-software on your PC, then it took about an hour to convert it into a proprietary Sony format, and then you could upload it to your player.But only three times, mind you. When you wanted new music on your player, you had to download it back to your harddisk; if you just deleted the music off the player, the software would give you a strike and when you had used up your three strikes, the software decided you couldn't hear that album any more and you had to reinstall the software and re-convert the music./rantout
(DIR) Post #AiYVdQpSKhnE1B0jeC by EvilSandmich@poa.st
2024-06-03T16:09:53.367374Z
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@Felix_Krull @inertia I was going to mention that but have long since forgotten the timeline. 1st, 2nd, and even 3rd gen MP3 players were crap, it's why Apple was able to almost instantly monopolize the space.
(DIR) Post #AiYVe78145axCu19PM by PunishedD@clubcyberia.co
2024-06-03T16:08:07.864448Z
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@inertia @Inginsub Yeah, it's the big new business buzzword. They'll trick a bunch of people into adding it, but like all business fads it'll collapse once people realize it doesn't deliver on the promise. The only thing AI can do for most places is reduce their internal headcount, and they've been doing that since Covid already.I forget the name, but there's a term for tech advances that are piggybacked off pure bullshit but are good for the industry as a whole. The classic examples were the video game glut in the 1980s which advanced home console tech, and the dot-com bubble which spurred a leap in networking hardware. I think AI is going to do the same thing: flame out hard, and leave behind some hardware advances that help us in the long run.
(DIR) Post #AiYVjLX2wK8FKMDiPA by BOB@versalife.business
2024-06-03T16:10:57.617113Z
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@inertia with Moore's law being dead i haven't seen a need to upgrade my pc since 2018
(DIR) Post #AiYVqAojAwcA7gkJBw by inertia@pone.social
2024-06-03T16:07:53Z
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@Felix_Krull @EvilSandmich wtf. Yeah you got ripped off lol.
(DIR) Post #AiYVqCDZy25UT3NfZA by Felix_Krull@poa.st
2024-06-03T16:09:05.018820Z
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@inertia @EvilSandmich Indeed. Salesmonster told me it could play MP3, nothing about the conversion scheme. As if he didn't know why people bought MP3-players, back in the Napster-era.
(DIR) Post #AiYW3AkgjGIJgZ3SnQ by inertia@pone.social
2024-06-03T16:11:05Z
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@PunishedD @Inginsub optimist-take. These fads are definitely good for all the people working in software. Maybe this boom and bust cycle is just part of the human psychy. The only way to get some money for new tech. Or we could have a war... (I guess we already kinda do)
(DIR) Post #AiYWku3CBavYd1Z1Wa by PunishedD@clubcyberia.co
2024-06-03T16:21:40.209707Z
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@inertia @Inginsub elitist take: the people pushing AI are not developers, they're barely software people at all. As far as I can tell, it's a tiny number of eggheads at the core working on models, a slightly larger number of software engineers enabling them, and then a whole inverted pyramid of users with almost zero skill using those tools. It's the same thing that happened when 1 guy made a WYSIWYG editor for HTML pages: suddenly, everybody and their mother is a "web developer", without learning any real skills at all. Their output was as terrible for the web as the AI output is for all content.Yes I'm shaking my cane at these damn "prompt engineers" and telling them to get off my lawn. YOU AREN'T DEVELOPERS, YOU ARE NOT MY PEERS, PYTHON IS GAY AND YOU STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE IT
(DIR) Post #AiYYF1uVcxwveBQk0e by Felix_Krull@poa.st
2024-06-03T16:22:43.464691Z
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@EvilSandmich @Xenophon @inertia Would.If I live long enough to go to a retirement home, I'd rather have my diaper changed by a robot than a human. Less demeaning.
(DIR) Post #AiYYRINsCl16DL0vIG by EvilSandmich@poa.st
2024-06-03T16:41:18.618983Z
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@Felix_Krull @Xenophon @inertia The issue, I guess, is that people forget how to do it
(DIR) Post #AiYe0mUCmFTFTqiR0K by CuteHorsePrions@pone.social
2024-06-03T17:36:30Z
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@Felix_Krull @EvilSandmich @inertia >$1,500that makes me sick. i am so sorry that happened. no wonder apple ate up the market for them. all the rest were abysmal in comparison.
(DIR) Post #AiYe0nzRBc3290KtKC by Felix_Krull@poa.st
2024-06-03T17:39:53.486396Z
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@CuteHorsePrions @EvilSandmich @inertia TBH, I almost certainly over-remembered the price. I can't recall what it said on the tag, but it was probably no more than $750, but still one of the worst buys in my life. With all the grief it gave me, it feels more like $5,000.