I think we currently live in a time where computers do not get cheaper with time. My hoster recently increased price. Also I had a look at a replacement SSD and oh boy did those get expensive… Last time I upgraded my laptop, I just maxed out the RAM with 32GB plus a 2TB SDD. And I might be mistaken with the numbers, but I think I paid a total of what’s half a SSD today 👀
Hmmh. I guess we’ll find out. According to the AI industry, they’re just getting started… I’m not really subscribed to that kind of thinking… But there’s various predictions from the bubble going to burst and we’ll get all the datacenter capactiy for cheap. To AI will continue on an exponential path and it’ll get way worse with it’s insatiable demand for energy and datacenters.
Poor gamers, though. First they had the cryptomining bros, then the scalpers, now the AI industry… There’s only ever a short time to buy GPUs before the next boom makes them overpriced again. And this might not be the last hype.
on a more serious note the industry as a whole is haemorrhaging money at an insane pace. the ed zitron report from earlier in the week showed that openais burn rate is like 8x their revenue and they show no sign of course-correcting, and the others seem to be doing the same thing. nvidia is the only profitable party and their profit is like a fifth of what the sector is losing.
I think we currently live in a time where computers do not get cheaper with time. My hoster recently increased price. Also I had a look at a replacement SSD and oh boy did those get expensive… Last time I upgraded my laptop, I just maxed out the RAM with 32GB plus a 2TB SDD. And I might be mistaken with the numbers, but I think I paid a total of what’s half a SSD today 👀
sure but that’s only until the gold rush peters out.
Hmmh. I guess we’ll find out. According to the AI industry, they’re just getting started… I’m not really subscribed to that kind of thinking… But there’s various predictions from the bubble going to burst and we’ll get all the datacenter capactiy for cheap. To AI will continue on an exponential path and it’ll get way worse with it’s insatiable demand for energy and datacenters.
Poor gamers, though. First they had the cryptomining bros, then the scalpers, now the AI industry… There’s only ever a short time to buy GPUs before the next boom makes them overpriced again. And this might not be the last hype.
the gamers know what they did.
on a more serious note the industry as a whole is haemorrhaging money at an insane pace. the ed zitron report from earlier in the week showed that openais burn rate is like 8x their revenue and they show no sign of course-correcting, and the others seem to be doing the same thing. nvidia is the only profitable party and their profit is like a fifth of what the sector is losing.