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It didn't successfully explain the NVIDIA burger joke though? The image is making fun of how nvidia has implemetned price discrimination by releasing consumer g

It didn't successfully explain the NVIDIA burger joke though? The image is making fun of how nvidia has implemetned price discrimination by releasing consumer gpu's that don't have as much vram as they should so that they can sell the fully loaded datacenter gpu's at insane markup without pissing off gamers. The explanation didn't even come close to getting that.

Melatonic 3y ago
Yeah that was my take as well. Although it did come up with a plausible sounding answer. A less nerdy human might also not get it
- HDThoreaun 3y ago
  To be fair the author didn't get it either so hard for me to blame GPT but was a bit wild to see the first example of success actually be a failure.
  - jazzyjackson 3y ago
    good example of how you need to be smarter than the AI to know whether it's correct or not if you don't know the answer, and the AI just pretends to know the answer, you just have to take its word for it.
wlesieutre 3y ago
It explains the broad joke, but gets the labels wrong. Says that the small buns are labeled "GPU and VRAM" and the massive fried chicken is labeled "NVIDIA BURGER" Should say that the small bun is labeled "VRAM" and the massive fried chicken is labeled "GPU"
gwern 3y ago
I don't think that's the right answer. I don't see anything in that meme image that indicates it's about price discrimination and elaborate narratives about consumer psychology, as opposed to a simpler point that 'NVIDIA GPUs are imbalanced'. Skimming what seems to be the meme origin on Facebook, I don't see a single gamer there mentioning price discrimination, or come even close to getting that. That may be why they skimp on VRAM, but you're adding a lot of context & editorializing into it that neither the meme author nor recipients are focused or even understand.
gs17 3y ago
Yeah, it seems to think the joke is about the graphics card being represented as a burger (and that the size is physical) and not about the amount of VRAM being insufficient.

Melatonic 3y ago

Yeah that was my take as well. Although it did come up with a plausible sounding answer. A less nerdy human might also not get it

HDThoreaun 3y ago
To be fair the author didn't get it either so hard for me to blame GPT but was a bit wild to see the first example of success actually be a failure.
- jazzyjackson 3y ago
  good example of how you need to be smarter than the AI to know whether it's correct or not if you don't know the answer, and the AI just pretends to know the answer, you just have to take its word for it.

wlesieutre 3y ago

It explains the broad joke, but gets the labels wrong. Says that the small buns are labeled "GPU and VRAM" and the massive fried chicken is labeled "NVIDIA BURGER" Should say that the small bun is labeled "VRAM" and the massive fried chicken is labeled "GPU"

gwern 3y ago

I don't think that's the right answer. I don't see anything in that meme image that indicates it's about price discrimination and elaborate narratives about consumer psychology, as opposed to a simpler point that 'NVIDIA GPUs are imbalanced'. Skimming what seems to be the meme origin on Facebook, I don't see a single gamer there mentioning price discrimination, or come even close to getting that. That may be why they skimp on VRAM, but you're adding a lot of context & editorializing into it that neither the meme author nor recipients are focused or even understand.

gs17 3y ago

Yeah, it seems to think the joke is about the graphics card being represented as a burger (and that the size is physical) and not about the amount of VRAM being insufficient.