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The "on life support" title has absolutely no justification and is just a sad editorialization with no evidence from insiders at google. They could have just as
by fooblaster 3y ago
The "on life support" title has absolutely no justification and is just a sad editorialization with no evidence from insiders at google. They could have just as easily said "tensor chip isn't so good with tensors" and gone with a more factual headline.
- dangus 3y ago“Tensor chip isn’t so good with tensors” “My car isn’t so good at driving.” Kind of sounds like life support.
- crest 3y agoAs if that had ever stopped one of the big established car companies from building more bad cars.
- rvnx 3y ago"Sorry I am just an AI chip, I can't help you running LLMs"
- pclmulqdq 3y agoYou laugh, but the requirements are actually very different between computer vision and other pre-2023 "AI" tasks and LLMs. LLMs are hopelessly memory bandwidth bound. Most other models are compute bound.
- wongarsu 3y agoAI goes through cycles where whichever field is currently making the most advances gets all the hype. But just because LLMs are currently flashy doesn't mean that object detection, image segmentation, facial recognition, image generation, text-to-speech, speech-to-text or anomaly detection are suddenly less useful.
- dangus 3y agoWell, bad cars don’t offload the driving to some kind of metaphorical cloud service. So I guess there’s some limitations to my analogy.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoI think BlueCruise depends on tbe cloud. Not sure about other implementations like Tesla's
- dangus 3y agoAh yes, Ford and Tesla, the champions of build quality.
- i5-2520M 3y agoGalaxy phone not good for space travel. Snapdragon can't breathe fire.
- bigbillheck 3y ago> Snapdragon can't breathe fire. When someone tells you to "touch grass" that includes eudicots as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antirrhinum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antirrhinum
- Dylan16807 3y agoGoogle is the one claiming that calculating tensors is the motivation behind the chip. If you're mocking that entire idea, then that also supports the claim that it's "on life support".
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- dade_ 3y agoThe image Google has created in the market of their products is, stellar success or death. The article states and provides examples where the chips are completely missing the mark (that Apple is setting) and that the chips aren’t a stellar success, so life support is probably a group of people trying to keep the project alive.