My how fast the AI tech bros move to protect corporations but don’t move to protect the average coder, artists, writers.

  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    You used to be able to BIOS flash workstation GPUs to make them somewhat usable for gaming… not sure how far these AI GPUs have diverged from gaming cards these days and if a BIOS flash could make them playable.

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      13 hours ago

      They don’t even have headers for soldering a display output to them. They’re purely a compute card.

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        12 hours ago

        It’d work nicely as a pure accelerator for an actual GPU though, with the right firmware.

        Almost back to the 3DFX pass-through days again… 😁

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      AI GPUs have specialized very heavily for neural networks, including things like going down to 8- or 4-bit floats in favor of more parallelization. Most of that hardware is just useless for graphics tasks at this point.