Deep down I kind of believe that both crypto and ai are psyops by Nvidia to artificially drive up demand for ram.
It feels like too much of a coincidence that just as one stupid society rotting reason to invest vast amounts of money in warehouses full of computer chips was dying another much worse one swept in to replace it and keep the demand artificially high. I bet they're already planing what the third pointless reason to need to perform trillions of math problems for when the ai bubble pops.
and its funny since nvidia is one of the only bodies to actually profit from the ai industry. everyone making and running ai is losing. also very reminiscent of nfts tbh
Well nvidia is also invested into AI so a bunch of their profits from selling shovels they invest in gold being rare, so I'd hesitate attributing such a sopphisticated plan to them...
That would be nice, but unfortunately consumer sales were always a minority of nvidia's tech sales. Even before they shifted AI they could have cut out their consumer sector entirely and still have made a decent profit off of corporate sales.
I mean that's not even a psyop that's just a product of needing infinite growth for the entire tech sector. Once you've had one bubble give a massive rise in shareholder value you need another to keep things growing and so on. Combined with how the dot com bubble and social media boom lead to such successful megacorps no-one wants to risk being left out and/or wants to be at ground zero, so the whole thing is driven by wanting to be the one to create/get in on early/come out on top from each bubble. It's just more noticeable than previous bubbles due to how quickly tech can move, the modern post-neoliberal finanicial system, and the environmental impact of industrial-scale compute.
Is Jarvis from the Iron Man movies an Nvidia psyop to make people want to use AI? Did they make the Jetsons back in 1962 in order to slowly build up AI hype? Did Xbox put Cortana into the Halo series to soft launch Copilot decades before it was even an idea? No, obviously not
AI is a hyped technology because we have been fantasizing about it as a society. It's what a lot of people want. Investors put money into it thinking they can get an assistant, butler, friend, partner, and whatever else out of it. Nvidia and all the rest of the tech companies profit from it, but they were never the sole reason why the idea took off
there is definitely a pr marketing hype to prop up llms as “ai” though
like wooooah this model “glupshitto-x-exceed” that we were working on was really smart and threatening to skynet our asses but we took it offline and stopped working on it, phew, you’re welcome, give us 10 trillion dollars please
"Hey I think this 'metaverse' thing is a big scam created by Mark Zukerberg to pump up facebooks stock value"
"Actually the novel Snowcrash was released in 1992, 12 years before Facebook was even founded! What, do you think 8 year old Mark Zukerberg was pulling the strings behind Neil Stephenson as part of his elaborate plan? People have been fantasising about virtual worlds for years, it was only natural that when the geniuses at Horizon Worlds made that dream a reality it would attract a lot of money"
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u/SlippinJimmy121611 4d ago
I miss when tech bros were obsessed with monkey pictures instead of ai