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Cloud infrastructure is undergoing an upheaval with service providers rushing to deploy servers configured for AI model training, often at the cost of postponing the usual refresh cycle for their standard server hardware. This generative AI boom has reshaped the priorities of many of the cloud providers, with a recent report …

  1. ecofeco Silver badge
    Meh

    What's that smell?

    Why does vaporware always smell the same?

    Rhetorical question: because it obviously always works to trap the same prey over and over.

  2. Reiki Shangle
    WTF?

    Gearing up for…

    This sounds like the service providers are gearing up for the largest game of wordwang*, because they forgot to take their large dose of reality.

    Have all other problems now been subsumed and assumed fixed by Alt-Man et al? I hope not. The lecture notes are woeful and I don’t see any useful, credible examinations, as you would expect of any expert.

    Of course, Alt-Man ads might just find a use for this dubious quality data. At the end of the day, whose wallets are going to bulge? And what else can these GPUs be used for?

    I guess with the declining relevant working populations, there is now a rush to get some infrastructure in place before there’s no-one trained locally to do basic tasks.

    I’ll let myself out…

    * Mitchell, Webb et al.

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