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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by xyzzy3000 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:27PM (#36144568)
No GPU purchases means no game industry, no VFX industry, no economy of scale in production to keep unit costs anywhere near sane, and no significant profits to drive further research and development of GPUs. No government would have the will to plug that funding gap.

And besides, if you take away the bread and circuses, how long would such a government last?

The collateral damage level for this scenario is at a suicidal scale, and would just hand everything over on a platter to a competing high tech state.

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by JohnFen on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:43PM (#36144743)
> No GPU purchases means no game industry

It would be a huge hit to AAA games, but the games industry is a lot more than that, and very little outside of AAA games require a GPU.

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by calebh on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:01PM (#36144959)
This is completely false. We're not living in a world anymore where CPUs do the rendering for videogames. Indie game studios use some of the same engines (Unity, Unreal) as AAA, and those engines definitely require GPUs.
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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by JohnFen on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:11PM (#36145076)
> Indie game studios use some of the same engines (Unity, Unreal) as AAA, and those engines definitely require GPUs.

That's funny, because I have no GPU on any of my machines, yet I can run games using Unity, Unreal, etc. I can even run at least some AAA games, albeit poorly.

Most people I know don't have a GPU, but most do play modern games on their computers.

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by muricula on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:23PM (#36145198)
Most modern CPUs (really SOCs) have an integrated GPU built in, which isn't half bad. Heck, the GPU often takes significantly up more space on the silicon die than the CPU does.
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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by dontlaugh on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:25PM (#36145226)
You mean you don't have a dedicated GPU. You wouldn't seen anything on your screen without a GPU at all.
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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by JohnFen on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:33PM (#36145313)
Yes, in the context of this discussion, we were talking about dedicated GPUs so I didn't think it was necessary to add this bit of detail. I apologize for the omission.
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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by dontlaugh on Thursday June 01, 2023 @06:04AM (#36149223)
And I was needlessly nitpicking. I mostly found it amusing to read a few sentences about not having a GPU, when almost every piece of software that renders anything has come to depend on GPUs.
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