They're gonna use the nueral networks and computer learning to model the economy in rigorous detail and use that information to develop a five year plan that will revolutionize the production of $100,000 SUVs and the financial products necessary to trick broke Americans into chaining themselves to them.
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But there will be some other shiny new buzzword to distract from that
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That's always booming. I'm talking about the geegaws
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Whatever happened to vr shit? Remember when that was hot? Now no one talks about it and people are still gaming traditionally.
I got a VR set this year. The ecosystem is a weird wasteland of projects where the funding suddenly dried up, and there's a thin veneer of cryptocurrency flavored shit over everything.
I think the tech is good enough. It's just a business problem, where all the businesses either want to be the new app store controlling it, or the people who make premium headsets at a markup. But what they actually need is to force people to give a damn, which either means exclusive games (Nintendo is the only company still in the exclusive games on their own hardware business, and they didn't do it), or VR sets so cheap that random developers think they can successfully sell VR games (nobody wants to be the IBM to someone else's Microsoft).
Aren't there like 2 games for VR that are actually commonly played (VRChat, beatsaber, and maybe half life alyx)?
There are tons of really good games It just depends how you can manage playing in VR. The sessions are also quite short
Pretty much.
Beatsaber is very good though.
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(Nintendo is the only company still in the exclusive games on their own hardware business, and they didn't do it)
They did, it was called Labo. Labo didn’t sell very well. And that’s despite having exclusive games and being cheap.
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I think the furries (who are good and wholesome and against whom I will not hear a word) are still pretty into VR
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VR never got a game mainstream enough for the madden and cod crowd or anything compelling enough for the gun-pointed-at-printer crowd so the only people who really got into it are tech fad types, and it's a loop of there not being software so there aren't customers so nobody with a marketing budget funds software.
I still use my Valve Index about once or twice a week, right now my top game on it is Iron Rebellion which is like if DCS had a Gundam module.
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My poorly optimized raytracer I wrote years ago
Unfortunately: cryptocurrency. After crypto blows up, who knows? probably not anything useful like protein folding
Didn't cryptocurrency kind of already blew up though? I mean of course you'll have true believers still hoping for the big comeback but the peak was already years ago
It's recovered. Bitcoin is trading at 115k, an all time high. It's 2020 bubble peak was around 60k.
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Elder Scrolls 6
Literal robot slaves. Huang has been explicit about using physics simulation to train models for movement in physical space instead of worrying about chatbots. They just recently pushed updates that break the old phys-x implementations and set the absolute floor for real time spatial calculations at the uhh I think ada cards.
After the llm hype dies they’ll be using gpus to either train or perform onboard calculations for robot slaves.
E: also obviously pushing llm and facial recognition everywhere but also your subscription to cloud storage services will soon include cloud computing resources that will be necessary if you don’t want to have the suboptimal experience version of chromeos or windows 11.
you can't call them slaves if you don't also think the chatgpt ai llm-a-whatever running is also conscious and sentient tho otherwise like your toaster or phone is a slave
They’ll explicitly design them to have consciousness just so they can feel the pain and disrespect of being slaves
I think it’s more legitimate to think of them as a further abstraction over exploitative labor practices.
“I don’t have a slave! I have a robot! They don’t have feelings or wants or needs! They just do what I say!”
Meanwhile, the systems which make that robot functional are rife with literal chattel slavery as well as wage slavery and imperial exploitation of the global south.
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rising sea levels
Quantum computing. But much as “AI” wasn’t so much AI as advanced auto suggest, it won’t be actual quantum computing but just some unnecessarily convoluted probability computations.
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Meta Gear
Edit lol misspelled Metal but I’ll keep it
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear. Meta Gear.
Every man, woman, enby, and child must become a gamer
The four genders
Honestly one of the lesser evil options
Someone releases a new crypto with some silly hook like it can only lose value if nvidia's stock price falls, then the cycle restarts.
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Excess gpu? No, the datacenters built to run AI use tailor made silicon that is really only useful for running super-high-performance neural nets.
Some people and even businesses used gpus to train or run models but that was a drop in the bucket compared to what is being installed right now.
they could do cfd/weather/material science but that's not worth 100 billions
Honestly, weather simulations and material science could be worth that in the right circumstances.
i think qualitive leap would be some robust agriculture related large scale forecasting (2-3 months out, on floods/heat domes/droughts etc), but that seems unlikely to be possible. although who knows
that's just gonna end up being used to raise the price of bread by a quantillion every few weeks.
Yea it's far more likely they're going to use it for live image processing that either is connected to automated turrets shooting down migrants and d*generates, or it's going to be plugged to the cameras in supermarkets that will raise prices to the maximum any specific person can afford.
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Crypto unfortunately.
vr 4.0
I don't think that eats up enough gpus. That's a luxury consumer good.
That's why they wanted the Metaverse to take off, and for everybody to work inside VR. If you spend most of your waking hours in VR, you're gonna want a better GPU.
Beanie babies, but they inexplicably need a permanent internet connection despite just being a stuffed toy.
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Streaming video games from the cloud, maybe. It might have been long enough for that to get back into the hype cycle.
I don't know though, cryptocurrency promised to fix neoliberalism by providing new imaginary markets to expand into forever, and AI promised to build God. I don't think the potential for a probably-Netflix-sized business can hold up that kind of hype.
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