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There definitely was an era of compute surplus — compute being a solution in search of a problem. I think the recent crypto hype (bitcoin, NFTs) can (at least p

There definitely was an era of compute surplus — compute being a solution in search of a problem. I think the recent crypto hype (bitcoin, NFTs) can (at least partially) be attributed to the same issue. For sure, once the LLM hype diminishes to more practical scale we'll figure something else to burn cycles on. And I'm not predicting demand for GPUs to die out all of a sudden, but my money isn't on the nVidias of this world.

bubaumba 2y ago
> For sure, once the LLM hype diminishes It haven't even started. There are so many places it can be used, expect sci-fi in the next few years. There is no way back. The only thing that may change is the AI technology under the hood. I mean LLM isn't the goal, it's only a tool. Something else may replace or extend it. Many people are actively working on this. GPUs aren't the goal either, there must be more efficient way. But still they are very good at numbers crunching and that is needed for video processing.