• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    7 hours ago

    This is why I focused on graphics hardware for so long… Then some arsehole came up with running AI on GPUs.

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      2 hours ago

      Yeah, I got started in silicon thinking cheaper, faster, more power efficient chips would be a net benefit to the world… Then we became a social media surveillance state and AI dogshit is just the icing on the cake.

      Now I drink to forget we’re boiling the oceans to ruin society. One day this capitalist hellscape will end.

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      6 hours ago

      series of increasingly large dominoes where the smallest is “NVIDIA releases CUDA” and the largest is “the entire global economy has become dependent on running a useless computer program that tricks stupid people into believing it can do anything worthwhile”