Fuck AI

That's the goal, once you can't outright afford the hardware what do you think happens?

Subscriptions of course, much like the phone "contracts" of today, now you can rent a PC, or better yet subscribe to a cloud instance of a PC.

You'd still need to subscribe to the LLM of course, but that'd be easier if it was bundled with your cloud computer subscription.

Then comes the software bundles, because they can't just have you installing whatever you want on their cloud machines, that's leaving money on the table.

Eventually with the next generation, or the one after that it will become normalised, just another thing you can't own because fuck you, that's why.

FML: i scroll down maybe 10 posts and this : https://programming.dev/post/46457240

I think this is just negging.

The tools we deserve/need are cheap. A few pieces of wood and an angled blade.

Letting the South live after the civil war.

Nope, it's a 110 billion IOU...there is no money being passed around. That's why when this pops. It's gonna be grizzly.

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Look, it's simple. In capitalism it works like this:

Money = more money

Society = money

You = society

More society = more money

Society = more money

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They’ll have you subscribe to their RAM and storage.

Exactly. Nobody asked for AI.

What we ask for is cheap storage and RAM.

They are taking away something we want, and replacing it with something we don't want.

For the uninitiated

The price wizard has spoken

and that's just the teeny-tiny tip of the economic circle jerk that's going on.

For that matter, how much does it cost to start a RAM manufacturer?

I feel like we are already getting exactly that.

Its not 110 billion up front. Its setup to hit 110 billion in several stages if they hit certain metrics like AGI or going public.

The first stage is something like 35 billion based on reports. 15 billion from Amazon, then 10 billion each from Nvidia and Softbank. Looks like Microsoft sat this round out since they arent name checked:

All of this adds a little more anxiety to OpenAI's alleged $100 billion funding round which, as The Information reports, Amazon's alleged $50 billion investment will actually be $15 billion, with the next $35 billion contingent on AGI or an IPO:

Under the terms of the investment, which are still being negotiated, Amazon would initially invest $15 billion into OpenAI, these people said. The other $35 billion could hinge on OpenAI reaching AGI or going public, the people said. The proposed Amazon investment is part of OpenAI’s current funding round, which could top $100 billion at a valuation of $730 billion before the financing.

And that $30 billion from NVIDIA is shaping up to be a Klarna-esque three-installment payment plan:

In addition, SoftBank and Nvidia each plan to invest $30 billion in three installments through the year as part of the round, said the people. Microsoft had been expected to invest low billions of dollars, The Information previously reported, but it could invest a smaller amount or none at all, according to two of the people.

Still a fuckton, but as usual Altman is hyping something that hasent actually happened.

Hey, what if no money is real money. Then what?

I wish I could attach a generator to this circular flow... unlimited powaaaah

Let's not hope but make ☺️