Just wait for the bubble to burst, there will be tons of cheap stuff floating around after..
Can't remember if it was Alphabet or MS saying that if 3rd world won't take AI use in this year, it will fail. Hard to see that kind of money coming 3rd world..

 

Ummm you may wish to check that. The Greeks invented democracy. 5th Century BCE.
Best to try and stay away from any mention of politics too just in case, even the ancient ones.

 

This is an exercise in optimism, because it assumes geopolitical stabilization and sufficient expansion to normalize the market. Realism, on the other hand, points to a strong possibility that shortages and high prices may continue for years, even with new factories (big fat money)!

 

I am really trying to stay away from the negatives and look for positives. When you mentioned factories, after the Amazon leaning towards robotics, forgive me if I say we are just going to have to wait and see exactly what, how and with who or what that develops.

 

My solution to this problem is to fire AI and any of it's developers into the sun. It definitely has it's big benefits in various facets of life, but I can do without it completely, and it feels like we are shooting ourselves in the foot here just because everyone developing it wants to be first/best.

 

I understand, you prefer to believe it might work out, but there’s no way to be certain right now. And that’s exactly the point: while we remain in the "wait and see" mindset, the market keeps imposing ever-higher prices and concrete limitations on those who depend on these technologies ("surfing the wave" until the bubble bursts, to fill their coffers with big fat money!).
This is not about pessimism, but about recognizing that the current dynamics cannot be solved by hope or purely positive expectations alone. We need to look at the signals (production bottlenecks, the tech race, geopolitical volatility) and think like adults about how this directly affects us (and, most importantly, in the long term, humanity as a greater whole).
Optimism is valid and great for mental health, but without realism it becomes mere cheering (with us as part of the audience). What we need now is critical analysis, so we don’t get caught off guard = to safeguard ourselves against future problems by making the best possible and foreseeable decisions!

 

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When you own a lot of computing capability a made the market unaffordable for the rest, you can just rent it out i.e. make people dependent on it. Then having cornered the market you can just raise prices and repeat.

AI is a perfect example of this, the models you can run are unaffordable by anyone else, so they have to rent it from you. They don't want customers, they want repeat customers and eventually dependents.

 

Unfortunately is already happening. As already said here, AI is useful but the savage over-spending in hardware bubble brings nothing but bad shit to us consumers. It's a very real and legit concern. Giant AI datacenters are very bad news.

We can only hope the bubble bursts and things return to some kind of reasonable investing in AI. But for the moment, again as already said, we can only watch. We basically don't have power.

 

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Sorry, couldn’t resist taking a jab
You know I’ve got nothing but laughs with you, pal!
You’re the man Xupi!

 

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