▲ 147 ▼ The price of AI is crashing faster than the rate of Moore's Law — intelligence costs are in freefall, outpacing comparative technologies like compute, DNA sequencing, and lithium batteries (epoch.ai) submitted 1 month ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 67 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Chozo@fedia.io 20 points 1 month ago (4 children) That's cool and all, but when can I buy RAM again? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Rothe@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago (2 children) In 4 years or never. The latter probably being the most likely, since they are not just keeping RAM from you for AI purposes. They don't want you to own you own hardware anymore, so they just simply stop manufacturing consumergrade hardware. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago Probably not never - CXMT are trying to aggressively expand to fill the market now the major players have left, but it will still be a few years before prices really come down as a result. permalink fedilink source parent [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* They don't want you to own [your] own hardware anymore Daily, it seems, I realize I'm one of the non-telepathic people: I can't immediately know chip-maker company CEO motives and goals, and I just don't see the conspiracy you do. What am I thinking right now? permalink fedilink source parent [–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago Never if you are in the US. In a few years if you are allowed to buy Chinese. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rothe@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago (2 children) In 4 years or never. The latter probably being the most likely, since they are not just keeping RAM from you for AI purposes. They don't want you to own you own hardware anymore, so they just simply stop manufacturing consumergrade hardware. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago Probably not never - CXMT are trying to aggressively expand to fill the market now the major players have left, but it will still be a few years before prices really come down as a result. permalink fedilink source parent [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* They don't want you to own [your] own hardware anymore Daily, it seems, I realize I'm one of the non-telepathic people: I can't immediately know chip-maker company CEO motives and goals, and I just don't see the conspiracy you do. What am I thinking right now? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago Probably not never - CXMT are trying to aggressively expand to fill the market now the major players have left, but it will still be a few years before prices really come down as a result. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* They don't want you to own [your] own hardware anymore Daily, it seems, I realize I'm one of the non-telepathic people: I can't immediately know chip-maker company CEO motives and goals, and I just don't see the conspiracy you do. What am I thinking right now? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago Never if you are in the US. In a few years if you are allowed to buy Chinese. permalink fedilink source parent