There 👏 are 👏 real 👏 fucking 👏 limits.

I suspect GPU intensive compute is going to be one of our nastiest ZIRP hangovers (Elon et al are just gonna be equiv to “walks of shame”). This isn’t zero-marginal-cost tech and it’s under-priced by a factor of at least 10x. Physics: it’s a real thing. Cybernetics: It’s a real thing.

…artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street Journal piece from this week has sounded the alarm that some believe AI models will run out of “high-quality text-based data” within the next two years in what an AI researcher called “a frontier research problem.” 

https://www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-trouble

https://www.vox.com/climate/2024/3/28/24111721/ai-uses-a-lot-of-energy-experts-expect-it-to-double-in-just-a-few-years

If you’re building on the current crop of AI/ML systems… you’re in for really shocking bills.

Stability rented its infrastructure from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and GPU-centric cloud operator CoreWeave, at a reported cost of around $99 million a year. 

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/stability_ai_bills

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