In-reply-to » On LinkedIn I see a lot of posts aimed at software developers along the lines of "If you're not using these AI tools (X,Y,Z) you're going to be left behind."

I generally don’t buy into hype myself anyway, didn’t buy into the “Cloud” hype, nor the “Cryptocurrency” hype, and I’m sure as hell not buying into the so-called “AI” hype. Wake me up when I can run this shit™ on my own GPU-powered machines 🤣 – As a vision impaired person, the only use-case I’ve found that’s remotely useful for me is to summarize text. Problem though? I’m not going to use OpenAI’s service to do this. Why? Privacy! Fuck me, do you really think I’m just going to dump shit™ into your API endpoints?! (or Web App).

One of these days I’d like to build a small GPU cluster, but I haven’t decided how yet. Cluster or RPI(s) or a more expensive cluster of 1RU pizza boxes with NVIDIA Tesla cards, or a 1RU 4-node NVIDIA AGX Jetson cluster?

⤋ Read More