Crypto, followed by NFTs, followed by LLMs... The GPU market has been fucked for years now. Whenever something starts to drop off, another tech bro idea that requires 10,000 GPUs to process takes its place.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago

Petition to shoot the next tech bro with a "innovative" idea

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

The Crypto to AI transition was brutal. Just as demand for GPUs was coming down because people were starting to use ASICs to mine Bitcoin, along comes AI to drive up non-gaming demand again.

The only good news is that eventually when the AI bubble pops there will be massive R&D and manufacturing geared towards producing GPUs. Unless something else comes along... But really, I can't see that happening because the AI bubble is so immense and is such an enormous part of the entire world's economy.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Truly just the brute force solution. Need a shitload of compute? GPUs can do it! No one stops to think if we really need it. It's all about coulda, not shoulda. Yeah, ML and AI has a place, but big tech just thinks "slap an LLM everywhere". Just such horseshit

[–] omarfw@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

The tech industry chases acquisition and investor money only now, not consumer demand or innovative achievement. It's all just people trying to get rich, mostly so they can escape the effects of late stage capitalism.