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Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causing
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Episode 7893 of corporations artificially creating problems to make profit by selling the solution. Just to then fail at solving the problem of their own creation.
Brilliant economic system. You can marvel at its ingenuity and just get lost in it.
They aren’t artificially creating this problem, they are inadvertently creating this problem.
AI companies need RAM and other compute components to feed the AI beast which drives up demand, and cost but reduces supply for everyone, including their Xbox and Surface divisions.
Given their enterprise divisions make vastly more money than their consumer divisions, nothing will change.
The problem is artificial, because 95% of all this 'AI' is useless, pointless, and a massive waste of resources. Nobody asked for it, and practically nobody is using it.
Even in cases where a chatbot is helpful, a small, local model is more than enough. Not a single soul needs a 50T parameter model for anything. Nobody on the planet uses AI image enhancement or item removal.
Almost all of this shit is purely made to inflate the bubble, and serves no other purpose. All the while ruining many other industries, people's hobbies, ease of finding factual information online, etc.
The problem is artificial, because it was created pretty much deliberately, for no particular reason other than profit.
It's a solution in search of a problem.
And it's a bunch of misanthropic sociopaths with main character syndrome who read scifi novels and saw the warnings as a guideline because "I'm the super smartest, I can implement it correctly, and I have to be first, because those other guys won't do it correctly"
But does anyone need ai companies?
The fact that the major players are still in business means someone thinks so.
Are they still 'in business' though? They're burning through money they don't even have at a never before seen rate. Just to make barely useful software that works 20% of the time at best.
I feel like it's the same as saying the banks and real estate companies were 'still in business' in 2008. Naturally, time will tell if it's the same cycle repeating. So far everything seems to be pointing in that direction.