It is great fun to realize that back in the day, when you ended up properly pissed in the pub, the pub owner could simply haul you on top of your horse, which would know the way home and deliver you there.
Now with cars we may even need radar on top of video to get similar results. And I doubt you are allowed to be drunk while your car is helping you home.
I just had a nice chat with Bing about this and Bing is adamant that it's because they are "essential for solving complex problems, advancing AI models, accelerating innovation, and providing competitive advantages in technology and research".
And definitely not because anything with "AI" in the name is now virtually guaranteed to attract far more investment and government support than things without "AI" in the name. Bing was very clear about that.
Still, good for a country to have it's own on-prem AI supercomputer than being at the mercy of foreign cloud providers who can terminate you at any time because your research breaks some obscure and vague ToS they made up.
how is 1500 H100's considered "one of the worlds most powerful AI supercomputers" ? i dont get how that adds up. meta got 150.000 H100's delivered in 2023 alone?
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 59.8 ms ] threadTo me its as if we had said "Why do we need anything faster than a 386 in the 1980s?".
Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already
Why do we need 100Mb/s internet? 10Mb/s works fine already
Why do we need 24 inch monitors? 19 inch works fine already
Why do we need 3.2GHz laptops? 2.4GHz works fine already
Why do we need better headphones? Stock wired earbuds work fine already
I could go on forever :)
...but there's a difference. Op isn't saying "why AI?"
- why do we need supercars, cars are just fine? - why do we need megaphones, phones are just fine?
It is great fun to realize that back in the day, when you ended up properly pissed in the pub, the pub owner could simply haul you on top of your horse, which would know the way home and deliver you there.
Now with cars we may even need radar on top of video to get similar results. And I doubt you are allowed to be drunk while your car is helping you home.
And definitely not because anything with "AI" in the name is now virtually guaranteed to attract far more investment and government support than things without "AI" in the name. Bing was very clear about that.
In Terminator 2
" John Connor: You know what you're doing?
The Terminator: I have detailed files on human anatomy.
Sarah Connor: I'll bet. Makes you a more efficient killer, right?
The Terminator: Correct.
"