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When the AI bubble pops, what will remain? Cheap GPUs at firesale prices, skilled applied statisticians looking for work, and open source models that already do impressive things, but will grow far more impressive after being optimized:

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[โ€“] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The sad thing is those GPUs are in specialized boards with specialized servers and cooling, and not really good at the kind of work consumers would want it for, assuming you could even get drivers. So most all of those GPUs will realistically get scrapped if the bubble pops.

Maybe we'll see the EPYC CPUs get sold secondhand at least, those are socketed.

[โ€“] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There are plenty of these, yes. But there are also plenty of consumer-grade GPUs being used for it too.

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