2y ago

NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer

www.goldmansachs.com

Here comes the push.

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LOL! To "make it safer".
No.
It's to increase share value by creating a rush to buy their graphics cards.
- Help help! Crypto never took off! Won't someone think of our bottom line!
why do CEOs never say "lets take our time to avoid making mistakes and insure quality"?
- Capitalism big number must go up every quarter bullshit. Forces myopic short term decision making and will probably be the death of civilization.
- Because that’s boring and doesn’t make good headlines. Not making exciting headlines means share prices stagnate. Taking your time also means that someone else might beat you to the punch. Neither of those things are good for the company’s bottom line or the CEOs business reputation.
- Because they are not Miyamoto, helping churn out Zelda and Mario games that feel familiar, yet innovative. 🤌🏻
That's like saying we should all drive faster to help identify shortcomings in traffic signals or vehicle safety features...
Sounds like a flimsy ass false pretense to chase profits. Just my opinion, mind, but that doesn't sound like something someone would posit at face value.
- What's silicon valley's favourite saying? Move fast and..make things safer? Close enough.
- we should all drive faster to help identify shortcomings in traffic signals or vehicle safety features
  american traffic engineers in question
Company making billions of dollars wants to continue making billions of dollars.
- Wow, so surprising
Oh is that why? It's not because Nvidia is making bank in the AI sector and he's just another greedy CEO?
"Please buy more of my hardware so nobody finds out how deep in trouble my company is. PLEASE."
- Why do you think Nvidia is in trouble?
  
  Their "investments" in their largest customers are showing up as sales volume when they're essentially giving products away. This coming year has four major companies coming to market with deadly serious competition, and the magic money investment in AI scams is drying up very quickly. So, if I was nvidia, doing what Jensen has been up to with the CEO-to-CEO customer meetings to arrange delivery timelines, and royally screwing over his most reliable channel partners, I'd hope with everything I have that the customers I have keep buying needlessly so the bubble never bursts.
Wait, is the crypto-boom over? I wasn't paying attention...
- It's a cycle of booms and busts. Always has been.
Relevant XKCD
"Quick...we need to get everyone to buy our GPU-based bullshit before people figure out FPGA is wildly better"
- Dedicated ASIC is where all the hotness lies. Flexibility of FPGA doesn't seem to overcome its overhead for most users. Not sure if it will change when custom ASIC becomes too expensive again, and all the magic money furnaces run out of bills to burn.
  
  ASIC are single purpose at the benefit of potential power efficiency improvements. Not at all useful something like running neutral networks, especially not when they are being retrained and updated.
  FPGAs are fully (re)programmable. There's a reason why datacenters don't lease ASIC instances.
I guess we’re just waiting until something awful happens before it’s properly regulated.
Not surprising.
Nvidia has pissed off the pc gaming industry, which is why their focus has shifted to the server markets.
Now in the server markets they're not top dog, so they want to straddle the fence.
This divided focus will be their undoing.
- Nvidia is top dog in machine learning accelerator / server market which is why they have neglected GPU market. They just want more.
  
  If their winning position was truly "top dog" they wouldn't be shivering, shaking and pissing themselves begging for people to purchase their crap using insane lines like "The more you buy the more you save."
  This is total and complete panic.

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