Current approaches to AI may need this, but what that says is they are doing it wrong. An "intelligence" is more than a neural network, no matter how big.

A human figures out what do to, an AI fakes it based on ample precedent it has been trained on. The two are not the same.

Correct, and no one should ever forget that.

"Wealth prefers a dystopian hell-whole?"

No, wealth has no preference, it doesn't have agency. The wealthy, however, do prefer exactly that. Everything for them, nothing for you.

"Have our financial masters become stupid in their success? That would be a damning critique of post-modern wealth; say nothing of the institutions that educated them. "

Perhaps you should observe current behavior of the wealthy, it's easier now than ever. And learn something from history.

"1) power usage is more important at this juncture."

Is it? At this "juncture"? If we're talking about AI inferences, how is power usage important at all?

"2) inference is memory bandwidth limited, not compute limited."

So what? How is "gigawatts" useful in that regard?

"A device with 17 bf16 TFLOPS may be able to do inference at precisely the same rate as a device with 4 bf16 TFLOPS."

So what?

"i.e., for very large model inferece- TFLOPS isn't a great measure."

So what? Who's using that? The measure is a gigawatts, the dumbest measure of all.

"I suppose we could transition to aggregate GB/s as our unit of measure."

You are truly a moron. Maybe you could transition to teaspoons of sugar as well.

FLOPs are a better metric than Watts, though. Too bad you're too stupid to understand even that.

"... you want to continue using a meaningless measure..."

What measure do I use? Citations please.

I think everyone realizes it that cares enough to consider it. Most don't bother thinking about it, at least beyond how they can make a buck. You are either a predator or a victim, the only solution is to not allow the game to be played. Sad thing is that most that imagine themselves predators don't realize they are the targets.

There is no post-AI economy, there is only homelessness, poverty and starvation. That's exactly what billionaires intend.

From your first linked article:

"There is no doubt we will see rapid advancements in some of the areas, but for others, like quantization, it is less clear. So while the cost of LLM inference will likely continue to decrease, its rate may slow down."

"Will LLM prices continue to decline at this rate? This is very hard to predict."

But go ahead and an assume massive declines in inferencing costs, we believe you. No doubt Altman and Musk will pass those savings onto the little man.

"or alternatively slows down and drops only two orders of magnitude until 2030"

Wow, so slow!

In your defense, it happened recently. The AI billionaires are too ignorant to realize how stupid this measure is.

"b. Transfer the US debt to cryptocurrency."

What does that mean? Debt is money owed, the US doesn't get to declare what currency the debt will be paid back "in".

And if the US government needs crypto to pay its loans, why would that crypto tank?

You can make a list, but that doesn't make you smart.

For governments, "reserve currencies" lubricate trade with foreign countries. Crypto "reserves" are nothing but more fraud, it is a deliberate misrepresentation of what the investment is, the "reserve" serves no purpose whatsoever other than to prop up the fake currency and enable private "investors" to take taxpayer money.

In what way is this investment a "reserve"? It serves no function of a currency reserve. It is a speculative investment of the worst kind, and almost certainly a corrupt one.

Unlike your home budget, a government also controls the currency in which it borrows. It can therefore print money and spend it, which governments do. The beauty of a growing economy, along with a policy of inflation, is that it allows the government to manufacture quite a bit of free money rather than borrow it.

Correct, now those government retirement funds are free for the taking, as designed.

"The problem is that according to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language -- and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own..."

Complete bullshit:

"according to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language"

False, but so what? LLMs are "largely independent of human language" as well.

"...and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own..."

But LLMs are not about "ever more sophisticated modeling of language", or even modeling of language at all. This guy is a fool, there are plenty of here, including me, that are highly skeptical of most AI claims, but this here is ignorant bullshit.

Which is hysterical because it's quite clear that he, and members of his family, have been taking it.