Not sure because these chips cost so much to operate in energy costs. If enough efficiency gains are made it would be cheaper to buy and run new ones than to run old ones to do the same tasks. When data center companies start building their own nuclear power plants you know there is a LOT of money to be saved by increasing efficiency.

The nonsense is that the parent post says the reason their cars aren't being bought is that people don't like China. Well, what about people in China? These are cars for the Chinese market, not export. China has a reputation for making low quality goods. Why would you put you life inside garbage that might kill you?

Mecha-Hitler disagrees.

And "toxic" is just a code-word for masculine. Which has been declared "toxic" by our overlords, who don't want us to oppose them.

The Economy relies on ever-increasing amounts of debt to function. Banks are fine with lending money because they expect taxpayers to bail them out if the loans go bad.

> I feel like the entire world is caught up in snake oil salesmanship to the point of destroying the entirety of functional society, just because a very few people might make some money off of it. WTF?

It's been like that for years now. Society is collapsing and we're in the Looting The Treasury phase.

Without Moore's Law you can build more powerful chips by making them bigger, but they'll take more power to run. Which means more cooling to keep them running and more power plants to run them.

There might be improvements to chip design to make them more optimal for AI software, but that's likely to be a one-off.

In a few years, all of these GPUs will be available on eBay for a few bucks each.

Then I'll finally be able to snag a whole bunch of them and build a Beowulf cluster to run SETI@home faster than anybody else.

It wasn't hard to tell that the emperor in the fable was naked at the equivalent point in the tale either, but it still took that lone voice to pipe up and say so. In the case of sub-prime, the smart people (or at least their smart financial advisors) sat up, paid attention to what Burry was saying and took some mitigating action, everyone else took a bath or, if they had the right contacts and leverage, got a government bailout.

In my mind, AI is just about at that point but is still suffering from a combination of the Greater Fool theory and Dunning-Kruger syndrome. The people backing the AI bros and the bros themselves all know it's a bubble (Sam Altman even flat out said so), but as long as they can keep pulling in money from the pool of Greater Fools to pay the bills, and their Dunning-Kruger leads them to believe they will be the select few that realise it's time to bail right before the bubble pops to maximise their profits and avoid taking the hit, unlike all the other losers, they're going to keep pumping air into it.

Not sure I would clasify that kind of negligence as legitimate. But yeah, most git repos, have lines to clone them as text to be copied and pasted into a shell.

By the same token, I was reading for years how China's construction market was the biggest bubble in history and was going to pop so hard the nation would be an economic black hole. Is that still going to happen or what?

Chinese people don't want to buy their garbage cars and they like China. Why would we?

...This is my embarrassed face.

I had previously assumed you were speaking of allocating $1M across all projects used by Google. In fact, you were speaking of giving $1M to each such project.

One would wonder what sorts of strings would be attached to such largesse. Still, that would indeed be game-changing and amazing.

Google could create a new corporate policy to provide a minimum of $1M/year to any open source project it uses.

That would be real innovation.

While acknowledging your noble intentions, no, it wouldn't be innovation. It would be cheaping out.

In the San Francisco bay area, $1.0E+06/year gets you maybe five skilled engineers. Set against the quantity of Open Source projects used by such organizations -- FFmpeg, GStreamer, OpenSSL, ssh, rsync, gcc, gdb, coreutils, nanopb, Samba, Lua, Python, Perl, Git, Vim/Neovim, Yocto, ImageMagick, Blender, the Pipewire framework, the Linux kernel, the Debian packaging system, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc... -- five engineers is miserly.

That work sounds like a great candidate to offload onto AI!

They're here illegally. Frankly I don't care if they're in a gang or not. They shouldn't have been let in in the first place. We already have problems with housing costs and stagnant wages. You don't think importing millions of people affects that? Next, and the part we'll never do, is severely punish employers who hired them.

Google appears to have understaken the expense of spinning up an ocean-boiling slop machine to automagically generate plausible bug reports, and then casually fire off an email to the maintainers.

Note that Google has not undertaken the expense of assigning an engineer to also write a fix.

That they are not doing that is a conscious, management-approved choice.

...Y'know how Google relishes in closing bug reports with "WONTFIX - Working as designed?" I think FFmpeg should close slop reports from Google with, "WONTFIX - Unfunded."