▲ 1187 ▼ Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead (www.theverge.com) submitted 11 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 312 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 100 points 11 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children) 1 permalink fedilink source hideshow 11 child comments replies: [–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (6 children) AI companies are buying up all of the RAM in a futile bit to reach AGI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (3 children) And haven't even achieved AI yet. What we call "AI" is still nothing more than an upjumped calculator. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (1 child) In addition, we haven't even come up with a definition of intelligence. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago To quote a recent post "we taught computers to talk like middle managers and assumed that meant computers were sentient, rather than assuming that middle managers aren't" permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago Their fucking calculator can't even calculate. Big fucking whoop. And people keep shovelling money in their bottomless maw. The world is mad. permalink fedilink source parent [–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 child) I swear bro, just let me add one more gigabyte. I swear, we're gonna get to AGI. Just add one more gigabyte. Just let me add one more gigabyte. Just let me add one more gigabyte. I swear. I swear. I swear. I swear, we're gonna get to AGI. Just one more gigabyte and just make it bigger. Just make it bigger. We're gonna get to AGI. We'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there. Just make the model bigger. I swear. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 point 11 months ago More like a terabyte. permalink fedilink source parent [–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 child) When you hear people say they hate AI, it's for more reasons than AI slop, energy consumption, and beating the damn term into every product line you can imagine for little to no benefit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] percent@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago My phone recently offered to summarize a text message for me. I'm talking about SMS, the messaging system that already has a character limit. Also, when I last checked the weather in my area, there was an AI summary. It was an entire sentence or two, and offered zero additional details over what was already visually indicated by the raincloud icon and the number representing the temperature. I'm looking forward to installing GrapheneOS when their support for my phone stabilizes. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago I bought a fairly good custom build in April of this year for A$3218. The same approximate build now costs A$4783 on their website. permalink fedilink source parent [–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago Maybe I should start investing in my PC more permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (6 children) AI companies are buying up all of the RAM in a futile bit to reach AGI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (3 children) And haven't even achieved AI yet. What we call "AI" is still nothing more than an upjumped calculator. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (1 child) In addition, we haven't even come up with a definition of intelligence. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago To quote a recent post "we taught computers to talk like middle managers and assumed that meant computers were sentient, rather than assuming that middle managers aren't" permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago Their fucking calculator can't even calculate. Big fucking whoop. And people keep shovelling money in their bottomless maw. The world is mad. permalink fedilink source parent [–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 child) I swear bro, just let me add one more gigabyte. I swear, we're gonna get to AGI. Just add one more gigabyte. Just let me add one more gigabyte. Just let me add one more gigabyte. I swear. I swear. I swear. I swear, we're gonna get to AGI. Just one more gigabyte and just make it bigger. Just make it bigger. We're gonna get to AGI. We'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there. Just make the model bigger. I swear. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 point 11 months ago More like a terabyte. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (3 children) And haven't even achieved AI yet. What we call "AI" is still nothing more than an upjumped calculator. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (1 child) In addition, we haven't even come up with a definition of intelligence. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago To quote a recent post "we taught computers to talk like middle managers and assumed that meant computers were sentient, rather than assuming that middle managers aren't" permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago Their fucking calculator can't even calculate. Big fucking whoop. And people keep shovelling money in their bottomless maw. The world is mad. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (1 child) In addition, we haven't even come up with a definition of intelligence. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago To quote a recent post "we taught computers to talk like middle managers and assumed that meant computers were sentient, rather than assuming that middle managers aren't" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago To quote a recent post "we taught computers to talk like middle managers and assumed that meant computers were sentient, rather than assuming that middle managers aren't" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago Their fucking calculator can't even calculate. Big fucking whoop. And people keep shovelling money in their bottomless maw. The world is mad. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 child) I swear bro, just let me add one more gigabyte. I swear, we're gonna get to AGI. Just add one more gigabyte. Just let me add one more gigabyte. Just let me add one more gigabyte. I swear. I swear. I swear. I swear, we're gonna get to AGI. Just one more gigabyte and just make it bigger. Just make it bigger. We're gonna get to AGI. We'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there. Just make the model bigger. I swear. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 point 11 months ago More like a terabyte. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 point 11 months ago More like a terabyte. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 child) When you hear people say they hate AI, it's for more reasons than AI slop, energy consumption, and beating the damn term into every product line you can imagine for little to no benefit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] percent@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago My phone recently offered to summarize a text message for me. I'm talking about SMS, the messaging system that already has a character limit. Also, when I last checked the weather in my area, there was an AI summary. It was an entire sentence or two, and offered zero additional details over what was already visually indicated by the raincloud icon and the number representing the temperature. I'm looking forward to installing GrapheneOS when their support for my phone stabilizes. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] percent@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago My phone recently offered to summarize a text message for me. I'm talking about SMS, the messaging system that already has a character limit. Also, when I last checked the weather in my area, there was an AI summary. It was an entire sentence or two, and offered zero additional details over what was already visually indicated by the raincloud icon and the number representing the temperature. I'm looking forward to installing GrapheneOS when their support for my phone stabilizes. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago I bought a fairly good custom build in April of this year for A$3218. The same approximate build now costs A$4783 on their website. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago Maybe I should start investing in my PC more permalink fedilink source parent