The pile of "VR/Metaverse" they were kicking down the road to draw investors got too soft and splattery to interest anyone anymore, so they had to find something new.
I'm looking forward to playing with cheap surplus vector hardware during the next AI winter.
>... because leatherjacketman needs another yacht and summer home, think of the poor guy, he can only afford 9001 yachts and summer homes a week, ...
Well, at least the virtual double of himself that he commissioned makes more sense now.
I'm sure things like plumbing and showers were mere construction code formalities since the copies of himself would obviously never take off the jacket, even if they could.
Technological Advancement: Utilizing high-performance GPUs for backend operations isn't about extravagance but necessity.
Economic Ecosystem: The claim that this is merely a way for "cryptobros" to swap cartel backing for corporate backing is an oversimplification.
Corporate Strategy and Investment: Companies like NVIDIA support these developments not out of sheer greed but as part of a strategic vision to lead in a competitive market.
Yes, it is necessity, and that's exactly what sucks about it. Employing a LLM to troll your users and give them bad advice is the least efficient way of doing so. If this is really what we want to do, we can just write a Markov chain generator in JavaScript and push that to the user so that it wastes their compute resources, not ours.
h2odragon|1 year ago
I'm looking forward to playing with cheap surplus vector hardware during the next AI winter.
quintes|1 year ago
Selling it like it’s gonna solve all the problems. Then put a nice voice over it
rl3|1 year ago
Well, at least the virtual double of himself that he commissioned makes more sense now.
I'm sure things like plumbing and showers were mere construction code formalities since the copies of himself would obviously never take off the jacket, even if they could.
andrewfromx|1 year ago
Technological Advancement: Utilizing high-performance GPUs for backend operations isn't about extravagance but necessity.
Economic Ecosystem: The claim that this is merely a way for "cryptobros" to swap cartel backing for corporate backing is an oversimplification.
Corporate Strategy and Investment: Companies like NVIDIA support these developments not out of sheer greed but as part of a strategic vision to lead in a competitive market.
compiler1410|1 year ago