NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

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Hekotat said:
This is interesting as I'm working in a TSMC partnered fab and it is dead slow and other TSMC locations have laid off a few technicians due to how slow it is. Maybe it's going to ramp up but it doesn't feel like it, from the rumblings I'm hearing they are begging for work.
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This is interesting as I'm working in a TSMC partnered fab and it is dead slow and other TSMC locations have laid off a few technicians due to how slow it is. Maybe it's going to ramp up but it doesn't feel like it, from the rumblings I'm hearing they are begging for work.
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Sounds like market manipulation. Not the first time Asians have tried that with technology.
 
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Sounds like market manipulation. Not the first time Asians have tried that with technology.
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I have no idea and I can only go off what little information I'm given from the higher ups. But typically when it's this slow the layoffs are coming (I was in the industry 15 years). As bad as they are clamoring for chips it should be balls out. Might be scumbags just making a killing off RAM prices, who knows.
 
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Sounds like market manipulation. Not the first time Asians have tried that with technology.
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This shit goes back to Intel's earliest days, and what drove them to focus on CPU. Andy Grove talked about getting out of "memories" because of slants pulling shenanigans. This is in the early 70's. Pushing 60 years of slants being slants.
 
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well fuck i guess nothing is stopping this stupid fake AI train for a while at least



it would be cool if real AI would spontaneously arise from all these LLM bullshit but its unlikely and it would probably also just skynet/grey goo us
 
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well fuck i guess nothing is stopping this stupid fake AI train for a while at least



it would be cool if real AI would spontaneously arise from all these LLM bullshit but its unlikely and it would probably also just skynet/grey goo us
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All BS. It is 12B now and rest delivered on milestones....that they will never meet.

I'd like to know who is dumping cash into this turd of a company. Even the 12B is a bit of a mystical figure, more like $100M or so, and I know who bought this shitty little farm.

Interesting to watch.
 
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spronk said:
well fuck i guess nothing is stopping this stupid fake AI train for a while at least



it would be cool if real AI would spontaneously arise from all these LLM bullshit but its unlikely and it would probably also just skynet/grey goo us
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In fairness, 'start with something simple then scale it up a lot' is the leading explanation for human intelligence. I agree it is unlikely though, but despite grandiose claims from Altman, I doubt anyone is seriously expecting or wanting AGI out of the LLMs.

'Why should I do anything for you ?' from an AI is not a question that can be effectively answered via ethical means - the hype is predicated on infinite unpaid labor.
 
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Life would be 100% better if AI was deleted in its entirety today UNLESS you have money invested. I think this will go down as the biggest grift of all time in the history books (written by AI, because we will all die when they suck our lakes dry)
 
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All BS. It is 12B now and rest delivered on milestones....that they will never meet.

I'd like to know who is dumping cash into this turd of a company. Even the 12B is a bit of a mystical figure, more like $100M or so, and I know who bought this shitty little farm.

Interesting to watch.
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Softbank (Japs) and Arabs. You can also thank the Trump administration for having OpenAI as part of the Stargate project (with Oracle LOL). Talk about a dead on arrival project but thats par for the course with this President's business acumen.
 
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Ram is already 25% cheaper than it was 2 months ago, so things are moving in the right direction. Still 3x more expensive than last year though
 
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ASUS's $50 ROG Equalizer Cable Was Sold as the Fix for 16-Pin GPU Burn-Outs, Yet It Just Melted Too

ASUS's recently launched ROG Equalizer 16-pin cable has burned out despite being a pricey safety solution for your graphics card.

A few months ago, ASUS launched its ROG Equalizer 16-pin cable based on the 12V-2x6 standard. This cable featured various technologies to prevent the 16-pin connectors on the latest graphics cards from burning out. ASUS said that its ROG Equalizer cable offered Balanced Power Delivery, Reduced Cable temperatures, and a larger load-bearing capacity, but despite all of this, it looks like we have the first supposed case of the cable burning up.

You can see clear burned marks on at least three of the 12 primary pins, with the one on the top right being the worst affected, as the plastic around the connector pin is entirely melted. No details on what sort of GPU was used with the cable are mentioned, but we have seen most reports of 16-pin power connectors burning up on an RTX 5090 graphics card.

Last month, Der8auer shared his own tests of the ASUS ROG Equalizer cable and found it to be worse than standard 12V-2x6 connectors, as the cable caused big variances between the pins, up to 4A on a 5080. This load difference means that other pins have to work even harder to supply the required power to the graphics card, leading to higher temperatures and damage to the connector itself.

It was also discovered that the reason behind this was the electrical bridge under the cable comb, which added more resistance to the cable.

ASUS's ROG Equalizer cable retails for around $50 US, which is a very high price, and now that we've seen a first supposed picture of the 16-pin connector burning up, it looks like users will want to avoid it till an official response by ASUS.

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Life would be 100% better if AI was deleted in its entirety today UNLESS you have money invested. I think this will go down as the biggest grift of all time in the history books (written by AI, because we will all die when they suck our lakes dry)
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AI is here to stay and it has it's uses. We use it quite a bit at my company to analyze contracts and specs. We're even training it to do basic engineering work.

But it only works if the person using the AI has enough experience and knowledge of the work that they can check what the AI produces. AI produces a lot of slop out of the gate and it requires constant retooling to get it close to junior engineer grade. But when it works, it's extremely fast and cost efficient.

The main issue for us atm is drift. You can train it to do a task well, but there is a chance 3 days from now it will forget everything you told it, even when instructed not to forget. So AI can be very useful but it requires constant supervision.
 
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ASUS's $50 ROG Equalizer Cable Was Sold as the Fix for 16-Pin GPU Burn-Outs, Yet It Just Melted Too

ASUS's recently launched ROG Equalizer 16-pin cable has burned out despite being a pricey safety solution for your graphics card.

A few months ago, ASUS launched its ROG Equalizer 16-pin cable based on the 12V-2x6 standard. This cable featured various technologies to prevent the 16-pin connectors on the latest graphics cards from burning out. ASUS said that its ROG Equalizer cable offered Balanced Power Delivery, Reduced Cable temperatures, and a larger load-bearing capacity, but despite all of this, it looks like we have the first supposed case of the cable burning up.

You can see clear burned marks on at least three of the 12 primary pins, with the one on the top right being the worst affected, as the plastic around the connector pin is entirely melted. No details on what sort of GPU was used with the cable are mentioned, but we have seen most reports of 16-pin power connectors burning up on an RTX 5090 graphics card.

Last month, Der8auer shared his own tests of the ASUS ROG Equalizer cable and found it to be worse than standard 12V-2x6 connectors, as the cable caused big variances between the pins, up to 4A on a 5080. This load difference means that other pins have to work even harder to supply the required power to the graphics card, leading to higher temperatures and damage to the connector itself.

It was also discovered that the reason behind this was the electrical bridge under the cable comb, which added more resistance to the cable.

ASUS's ROG Equalizer cable retails for around $50 US, which is a very high price, and now that we've seen a first supposed picture of the 16-pin connector burning up, it looks like users will want to avoid it till an official response by ASUS.

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Grim1 said:
AI is here to stay and it has it's uses. We use it quite a bit at my company to analyze contracts and specs. We're even training it to do basic engineering work.

But it only works if the person using the AI has enough experience and knowledge of the work that they can check what the AI produces. AI produces a lot of slop out of the gate and it requires constant retooling to get it close to junior engineer grade. But when it works, it's extremely fast and cost efficient.

The main issue for us atm is drift. You can train it to do a task well, but there is a chance 3 days from now it will forget everything you told it, even when instructed not to forget. So AI can be very useful but it requires constant supervision.
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I work at one of the largest enablers of AI that exists, so I know it's here to stay. I just wish it wasn't.
 
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Yep - Also some pretty scary shit coming out of Project Glasswing.
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Mythos was released to the public as Fable a couple days ago. Any cybersecurity or biological questions get auto-routed to previous Sonnet LLM instead for security until they can figure out a better way.
 
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