if AI is a bubble (it is) then the opportunities are going to be in finding new non-AI uses for AI hardware - ThreadSky

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bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy • 13 days ago

if AI is a bubble (it is) then the opportunities are going to be in finding new non-AI uses for AI hardware

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SnoopJ.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@bob I've been mulling this over a bit. Like, "linear algebra machine" seems like a pretty obvious one, I guess with a bias towards DSP wot makes convolutions go brrrr

but then, that's what GPUs are.

I'm realizing as I write this that I don't know enough about the silicon/compute architecture […]

aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@SnoopJ @bob maybe you could use AI coprocessors to generate real time graphics for games

wait a minute

bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@SnoopJ they vary in terms of memory architecture, the only commonality is they have big systolic matrix units. some are VLIW machines that look like DSPs (qualcomm, groq), some are cgra-style grids (sambanova, tenstorrent), some are GPUs. the main difference between all of these and GPUs from […]

bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@SnoopJ "can I run my algorithm on an NPU" is, concretely, "can I express my algorithm in ONNX"

SnoopJ.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@bob sure I have some experience with them through $employer, the software side is familiar enough

the point about scheduling is… one I'm going to have to think about some more.

…graph theory machines?

bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@SnoopJ the compiler does planar graph embedding

disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@bob and if you can figure out quick enough, you can get there in time for all the VCs looking to reallocate their failed startups’ hardware…

jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy•13 days ago

@bob we’re going back to using GPUs for games. #RETVRN

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