Comments on: Christmas Came Early at xAI Colossus NVIDIA GB200 Shown

By: goarilla

goarilla — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 14:18:25 +0000

“””There’s also AI deniers who can’t see AI beyond ChatGPT 4’s release and think all AI is chatbots.””” Sure we’re not just realists ? Automatic subtitles are fantastic and if you have accurate big datasets like in scientific research ANN is fantastic already. But AI created art sucks and none of the LLAMA’s reason in any useful way … I want robots that can fold my laundry without 2000$ inference costs going to Grok, I don’t want a “copilot” that squirts out syntaxically perfectly correct but bad and slow code that is hard to detect in code-reviews, etc … I don’t want most of our jobs cut without the technology being mature enough and we having other job opportunities ! I also mostly don’t like Elon and I like “Stranger in a Strange Land” (although I’m not a fan of Heinlein in general) so the word Grok … rubs me the wrong way. Also I worked IT support for an engineering dept. and I have seen how smart great engineers can be and how insanely genius the exceptional ones are (the on in 200/300 type students). And in comparison with them I don’t get the cult of Elon. I can’t pretend like he’s Einstein and Tony Stark molded in one. He’s not nearly as smart and capable as any one of those two nor any of the capable engineers I’ve met, let alone the exceptional ones. But he does manage to attract a lot of VC and wants to change things that are insanely hard to do. Which I applaud him for. I only think it’s sad that we need a Tech Populist now to try get funded to do, with a couple of orders of magnitude more money, that what the 60-70s engineers and astronauts on the Apollo missions accomplished already all these years ago.

By: emerth

emerth — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:45:38 +0000

What is this system going to be used for though – training self driving car AIs, modelling SpaceX vehicles, training LLMs, generating “content” for Twitter? It is a very impressive machine but it’s not clear what he wants to do with it.

By: frogfreak

frogfreak — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:16:58 +0000

I don’t get the Elon hate? Boeing, Ford, Iridium investors? This xAI team has built the biggest AI cluster the fastest and keeps building. Grok is good at some things already and they’re just getting their GPUs online. It took something like two months to train Llama3 so if they finished in August, best case if they did a huge training run first, which you wouldn’t do before at least trying some smaller step ones, you’d have finished training two months ago. They’ve got plenty of data, plenty of GPUs. They’ll get there.

There’s also AI deniers who can’t see AI beyond ChatGPT 4’s release and think all AI is chatbots.

By: Cybeast Raystriker

Cybeast Raystriker — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:15:05 +0000

Lmao at these people in the comments unable to compartmentalize tech from politics

By: John Adam Beeterman

John Adam Beeterman — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:24:24 +0000

Yes, ever since the cyberstuck arrived, Patrick has fallen in love with Elon…

By: Jeffrey W. Baker

Jeffrey W. Baker — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:07:21 +0000

Been a while since I saw this density of dick-riding outside of r/teslalounge. “Monumental work” “A-team” “higher operational tempo” … all used to describe an organization that has literally never accomplished anything.