Nvidia CEO whines Europeans aren’t buying enough GPUs European nations need to invest more in artificial intelligence if they want to close the gap between the US and China, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during a visit to Copenhagen on Wednesday to inaugurate Denmark's shiny new Gefion supercomputer. "The EU has to accelerate the progress in AI," he said, according to Reuters. " …
I'd settle for him showing some tangible benefits. There's a Stanford-attributed estimate on the web that total global investments in AI between 2013 and 2022 were around $930 billion, not including any defence AI spend. What a fucking waste.
For about a ninth of that we could have eradicated malaria globally, which kills around 600,000 people each year, and we'd still have say $810 billion to do other genuinely useful stuff.
"Could we really eliminate malaria. I'd love to think it's possible, I'm sure scientifically it is, but getting people to work together against it seems a bit far-fetched."
Don't forget there's $810billion left over after putting aside the costs of the technical eradication programme. Maybe start off spend $10bn on invading Haiti, crushing the gangs and installing working civil infrastructure as a proof of concept. Have the Haiti re-civilisation programme run by the Saudis, and the dumbf***s in the gangs won't stand a chance.
This is actually an interesting game theory problem. Do you go all in with payoffs and risks of failure on day one or do you build up a capacity later on?
Or do you build a capacity at all.
Ignoring my personal views of the current AI gold rush (which will end shortly) there simply are no demonstrated benefits to commit. SF startups can throw money at the wall in hopes of finding a legit use case but Alexa, Siri, have demonstrated that end user does not give a HALF OF A FLYING FUCK about it.
Enterprise use cases boil down to reducing customer experience to even more shit by adding another layer on top of already useless outsourced CS agents following chat trees. Ok an improvement - you can't offboard an AI for not following a stupid call tree.
Information economy is a bloody dirty fight right now and internet is a lost cause. I wish I had answers, I am thankful that I locked down my identity online from very early on.
Why?
Seriously, just let those two entities (US and China) carry on waving their AI Prowess/Knobs in public and let the rest of us sit back without a real worry.
Might save a little money in the process, not spanking it on GPUs or new build power stations!
It's a toxic hellhole and they can't even get Linux drivers right.
I ended up by mistake on amazon.com rather than .co.uk the other day. Searched for a coup[le of graphics cards and thought I had stumbled on an early Black Friday sale or something similar. The prices were loads cheaper than I was expecting, then realised my mistake.
So Jensen "cool name by the way" if you want people this side of the pond to buy as many GPUs as our colonial cousins, how about giving up price parity as a good first step?
... he knows the AI bubble is about to pop shortly.
Also "catching up" in AI use is as desirable as catching up in STD infections.
Just because you have a high number of occurrence is something doesn't mean you're in any means ahead of others.
AI in its current forms and use cases is mostly just plague on society, and countries that limit its use will be better off in the long term than those that pump a bubble or chase something that actually hurts them.
As a Brit who spent many years living and working in the tech industry throughout Europe, before moving to the US, I can offer an informed opinion!
Europeans are generally not brain dead idiots who believe everything they are told by their corporate overlords, or the frat boy sales droids paying for their lunch/dinner/happy hour.
People also have to care about energy consumption and costs in Europe, arrogant Americun&@ don’t concern themselves with such trivialities.
In the multiple years I’ve been here, I have witnessed a level of incompetence and ineptitude that I didn’t think existed, and I grew up in a council estate surrounded by people whose ambitions extend to gaming the benefits system for as much as possible!
For some perspective, the average dumbass human brain does a minimum of 1exeflop. That's a lower case, with only classical compute, shoudl it turn out that the quantum computing abilities of microtubals are not utilised by nature.
It does this with 25 watts of total power.
Got a long way to go Jenson before AI has any real I in it.
"Having a supercomputer on national soil provides a foundation for countries to use their own infrastructure as they build AI models and applications that reflect their unique culture and language," the GPU giant wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.
That is almost completely true, but it is much better written to deliver the almighty fuller truth that having a supercomputer on national soil provides a foundation for countries to use their own infrastructure as they build AI models and applications that can both reflect and project their unique culture and language ..... with one not forgetting the vulnerability always introduced and forever present, and gravely to be regarded with the need to provide the secure protection of failsafe safeguards, that super computer hackers and immaculate crack coders and other supercomputers are certain to exploit in a direction of their unilateral choosing.
Such is inevitable ..... and as is always the case if/whenever such gateways are discovered, are sensitive and damaging revelatory exploits revealed long after the fact evidenced by emerging and converging troubles caused, and with the attention of such agents having morphed and moved on to further rewarding and blissfully unaware targets, are similar but different novel difficulties guaranteed to be persistently troubling to that and/or those requiring themselves, because of the consequences and repercussions of enlightenment, to conceal and try to prevent the presentation of undeniable truths such as can so easily be novel noble facts of fantastically sourced fiction. :-)
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