I wonder what will happen with all the compute once the AI bubble bursts.
It seems like gaming made GPU manufacturing scale enough to start using them as general compute, Bitcoin pumped billions into this market, driving down prices (per FLOP) and AI reaped the benefit of that, when crypto moved to asics and crashed later on.
But what’s next? We’ve got more compute than we could reasonably use. The factories are already there, the knowledge and techniques exist.
Most of the GPUs belong to the big tech companies, like OpenAI, Google and Amazon. AI startups are rarely buying their own GPUs (often they’re just using the OpenAI API). I don’t think the big tech will have any problem figuring out what to do with all their GPU compute.
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I wonder what will happen with all the compute once the AI bubble bursts.
It seems like gaming made GPU manufacturing scale enough to start using them as general compute, Bitcoin pumped billions into this market, driving down prices (per FLOP) and AI reaped the benefit of that, when crypto moved to asics and crashed later on.
But what’s next? We’ve got more compute than we could reasonably use. The factories are already there, the knowledge and techniques exist.
It will be used for more AI research probably.
Most of the GPUs belong to the big tech companies, like OpenAI, Google and Amazon. AI startups are rarely buying their own GPUs (often they’re just using the OpenAI API). I don’t think the big tech will have any problem figuring out what to do with all their GPU compute.
Finally very detailed climate simulations to know how hard we’re screwed