Re:Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
by jandrese on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:45AM
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This chart has been making the rounds recently as an example:
Re:Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:32AM
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That chart is insane. Assuming that scaling up compute is all that's needed seems wildly incorrect to me.
This whole buzz does have shades of self-driving cars back in 2016.
Re:Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
by jandrese on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:55AM
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> Assuming that scaling up compute is all that's needed seems wildly incorrect to me.
This is literally the strategy that people like Elon Musk are pursuing in their quest for AGI before the end of the decade. It is how he plans to have full self driving solved by August 8 so he can start selling Robotaxi accounts.
Re:Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
by disgruntledphd2 on Friday June 07, 2024 @06:14AM
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I mean, maybe? Certainly scaling up compute will make better text predictors, I am entirely unconvinced that that's all which is needed, but eventually I'll be wrong about the hype I guess.
I’ve actually seen literally none of that from proponents, like I’ve probably seen 100x as much strawmanning and uncharitable summary from opponents. Essentially nobody thinks we should hand the kingdom over to an unsupervised savior machine, like, can you show me a candidate from a major political party (doesn’t have to be US) who supports such a platform? Or a ceo who supports moving leadership decisions for his company over to an AI?
As far as I can tell, that whole thing is a strawman cut whole-cloth from the imaginations of detractors. I’d be delighted to hear counterexamples of the sort I discussed but I frankly don’t think they really exist outside some feverish imaginations.