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Recent post re: AI as utility

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/people-will-buy-intelligence-from-us-on-a-meter-chatgpts-ceo-sam-altman-has-critics-worried-with-his-ai-vision

Myself, I'm a fan of local LLM / self hosted ML.... but if you ever needed a clarion call that a hard pivot is coming (soon) for online/ cloud based AI...Altman et al are making some concerning mouth noises (to say nothing of broader concerns with OAI, Anthropic etc).

Right now, I'm sketching out a plan where my Raspberry Pi (always on, 2-3w) uses a magic packet to wake up my modest AI server (Lenovo P330 with Tesla P4) if/when needed (Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B); no point in chugging down 80-100w, 24/7 for no good reason.

If the trend continues the direction it appears to be (increasing costs, environmental impacts etc) then I'd feel a lot better hosting my own as port of first call and replacing simpler tasks with more traditional programs. YMMV.

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[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Huh - cheaper than the P40s (though less VRAM) but larger bandwidth due to HBM2. Good looking out

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was looking at that. Does it end up faster than something like a 1080?

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Numbers about 3-4x. The P100 is near 800 GB/s. The 1080 is what... 192GB/s? Hell, even if it were double that, HBM2 simply has larger bandwidth. The 1080 was a gaming card; the P100 is a server / number cruncher.