Id ask for an update on my work contract, so what we can have it written out, and negotiate my salary doubling every 6 months as well then

"Survival depends on sustained exponential growth" is a lot of words for "unsustainable"

Did anyone, like, hire an accountant to check on the feasibility? Or was accounting outsourced to an LLM?

Is it demand, or is it that no one gets a choice whether they use it or not?

I demand no AI

But where is the demand coming from? Seriously.

I've stopped using Google except for when I try to find products near me, mainly because it's becoming an AI slopfest that makes it harder to find what I'm actually looking for.

like a virus

Sounds like skynet is already making demands

That sounds sustainable

Christ on a cracker, if this doesn’t describe a bubble I don’t know what does. Not only is this just blatantly unsustainable, it’s fucking nuts.

Ai demand or their desire to have Ai demand?

Eternal growth is one of the biggest myths. It can't be eternal and will eventually lead to a collapse.

This reminds me of some of the earlier USSR 5 year plans in the 20s and 30s.

What demand? There is no AI demand.

Sounds sustainable.

In case you ever had any doubt, banish it now. We are blatantly and openly ruled by the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.

On the flipside, rejoice, for now you know, without any doubt, that even on your worst days, you are smarter than the most powerful people alive. Take what solace from that that you can.

The AI's demands.

collapse already

If someone says 10x it's probably bullshit. 100x it's definitely bullshit. I don't even have a term for 1000x

the next 1000x in 4-5 years

At the risk of stating the obvious, Ars is working backwards from this metric to get their headline "double every 6 months." 2^10 = 1024, to get that number in 5 years means doubling every half-year.

But Google didn't set incremental 6-month deadlines for 5 years straight, they set a single 5-year deadline. Because in 6 months shareholders can call their bluff quite easily, but in 5 years they're hoping everyone is A) distracted by some new disaster, or B) there's a new tech hype cycle they can push. They're trying to stall the bubble popping by pointing to a nebulous future where they magically scale to infinity, and hoping we all forget that they ever made this claim.

We need to turn the entire world into paperclips GPUs

Doubling every year would be crazy unsustainable at Google scale, but to tell employees you need to do so every 6 months seems like a fever dream of someone that doesn't understand what they are asking (or knows they aren't responsible for actually doing it). The old "just throw it over the fence" approach that corporate kool-aid drinkers love because they can take credit and shift blame.

Well that's totally sustainable.

puts a bunch of AI features in, turns them on by default without user’s asking for them, mandates employees use it when ever they can.

“How could this be a bubble? Look at all the demand!”

Double every six months? Yeah. Totally feasible and absolutely not a bubble at all.

so... it'll collapse in 6 months?

"demand" 😒👌🏻

Better get some fully functioning fusion reactors to power all that.

Google’s AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat told employees that the company must double its serving capacity every six months to meet demand for artificial intelligence services, reports CNBC.

Sound awfully like a cancer tumour inside Amin's head.

collaboration and co-design

Bribing?

"My loyal advisor," said the king, "I must grant you a reward for your many years of good service. What is it that you desire?" And the advisor asked the king, "Sire, simply give me one grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard, two on the second square, four on the third square and so forth until all sixty-four squares are filled." "Such a small thing?" said the king. "It shall be done at once." And so the advisor was given all the rice in the kingdom.

So...no different from shareholders. Nothing changes while everything changes.

I'm really high and at first glance saw all the colorful pipes as like a 90s McDonalds play area.

I feel like that interpretation made this whole article ~70% less silly.

We need some massive breakthroughs in AI efficiency soon or we're going to literally run out of RAM manufacturing capacity for all the things. The situation is so bad that in no time at all you're likely to be put on a six-month waiting list to buy a new PC/laptop or mobile phone.

Moore's Law:

"The company faces similar constraints serving its 800 million weekly ChatGPT users, with even paid subscribers regularly hitting usage limits for features like video synthesis and simulated reasoning models."

Who is paying for this crap?