When the AI bubble pops, what will remain? Cheap GPUs at firesale prices, skilled applied statisticians looking for work, and open source models that already do impressive things, but will grow far more impressive after being optimized:
Hmm and what about the everyday user who needs to ask AI how long to cook potatoes? What will they do after the pop?
Oh yeah, maybe using indexing website with fraction of the compute power needed where the answer will be first result anyway.
What arcane magics doest thou speak of?
They’ll ask their parents, or look up cooking instructions on actual websites.
Cue 8 paragraphs of “I first learned to cook potatoes with my grandfather back in…” and every reader screaming “Oh my god just get to the recipe…”
Another advantage of cookbooks. (There are good ones, but a lot are junk.)
Holy shit yes, do yourself a favor and buy a copy of The New Best Recipe cookbook by Cooks Illustrated or How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman, or even the old Betty Crocker cookbook is good, they’re packed with every basic recipe you need. I don’t even fuck with the internet for recipes anymore unless it’s something more uncommon I can’t find or something very specific.
There were supposed to be cheap GPUs after the crypto bubble burst
There were when the first Ethereum bubble burst. That was one easier for the average person to get into with gamer GPUs, and they flooded the market on eBay as soon as it was no longer profitable.
Bitcoin won’t do that, because it hasn’t been based on GPUs for a long, long time. Ethereum doesn’t even work like that anymore.
The AI bubble popping will only flood the market with GPUs that are useful for running AI models. The GPUs in AI datacenters often don’t even have a display output connector. I think Corey is overstating his case on that one. Most likely, those GPUs are headed to the landfill.
The AI bubble doesn’t mean AI/LLMs aren’t useful. It means datacenter speculation can’t make money.
those GPUs are headed to the landfill.
They’ll just have a similar discount to the Ethereum switch.
