Computing/GPUs, as a subscription service ONLY (CLOSED)

I'll just post this cos GN says it best. 
This is where nvidia and the other tech a holes want to take 
computing.. cos it will make them ;even richer and make us even 
weaker.

Good news! the next big fad will be shooting GPU farms up into space, so at the end of their 4-5 year life cycle they can be de-orbited and burn up, leaving nothing! You won't have to worry about last generation tech cluttering up the market and watering down prices!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2025/12/17/ai-data-centers-in-outer-space/

AMD is most likely popping the corks about these news.

It's good to have interests that don't involve computers in any shape or form. I have real books for reference, tools, materials etc etc.

I honestly believe that we are entering the era of the remote "dumb" terminal device
where all of the actual hardware computing is done on massive servers. Somewhere far away or even on orbital satellites, perhaps.

Software always advances faster than the hardware required to execute it properly.
Traditional software has likely already hit a technological wall that can only be surmounted with the addition of neural networks, machine learning and LLM's
( so-called AI.)
The problem is that running many of new "AI enhanced "software typically requires hardware that is going to be increasingly out of the reach of most ordinary consumers.
Certainly out of the reach of younger newbies that are going to be required to keep these softwares in business as the older people die off and move on.

I think major 3D animation and VFX studios
running programs like Maya and Houdini. will be okay for a little while simply because their legacy systems are very slow to change.
However, on the ,amateur ,hobbyist, middleware software scene, the hardware costs of entry is going to become increasingly unsustainable for individuals. when you literally need to spend thousands on hardware just to run software like Daz studio or iclone.
And still be completely unable to create any output similar to what you would get from Maya or Houdini, which basically has the same hardware requirements.


NVIDIA has probably decided. that it is  no longer  profitable trying to sell GPU's to ordinary consumers at $1000 to $2000 a piece and has moved on to enterprise solutions (data centers.)
Out of the general population, the percentage of people who would actually even buy a pc with a $1000 GPU to run software such as Daz, Blender or Iclone is already relatively miniscule by comparison.
And the video game, user base has long since accepted the reality of more and more titles being " live service" games, needing to be connected to a remote server to play the games .
I honestly, really do not see where the next generation of Daz studio,  Iclone , Blender or poser user is going to come from.

... and a remote GPU service refuses to render MY scene, because it considers MY scene as inappropriated.
:-E

Content filters will always exist on any commercial service that is subject to U.S. law.
Even the traditional non AI render farms of today.
However, considering the amount of AI. Fetish renders flooding Deviant Art. I'm pretty sure that most people will be able to find an AI that will generate their particular "kink" as long as one is willing to pay.

If the industry moves to a 'massive server -dumb terminal' model then home user's had better get used to sleeping during the day and working at night. 
The big players will be buying up all the processing power for their staff during the working day, Home users will be 'allowed' some time on the system during the night, so long as there is no maintenance scheduled. This is just like the days when universities had their first computers, and people with less prestigious projects would always get pushed to the back of the queue for computing time.
Ai is a glorified toy, and once the novelty wears off it will be put back on the shelf, just like last years kids toys. Tough luck to anyone left holding shares is Ai companies ( or having Ai business as a major customer )  when that happens.

I think also, a massive server which multiple companies rely on will be a massive magnet for hackers and ransomware target.

Greg Egan's 'Permutation City' has some interesting insights into Ai and virtual Reality, and what it would be like to live inside such a society ( though I'm not convinced by his 'dust' theory ).

Good video Vince thanks for sharing.

bonj, thank you!!! wow, I'll take that as my xmas gift... shoot, I feel.. LIGHT AS A FEATHER ! I CAN DANCE!!! oops.. oh..oonoooo.. ouch. ow.. OW !! fuckme oW!

anyway, cos I"m in a snarky, waiting for my soc sec check mood and it's the day before .. allow me to give us all
a wonderful gift; a gift of love, loss, and retribution... and the great Brian Blessed.

In all honesty I don't see most people adopting or even using ai, not even casually.  Search engines chat bots and similar llm  have a gimmick value but the interest soon wares off for many people.  The modern need for validation via likes and shares on social media is an addiction and some see ai as a means to be popular particularly in "art and music".  This is a false and even narcissistic trick that ironically the narcissist in need of validation are playing on themselves.  People claiming to be artist,  animators and hard surface model makers, sculptors and experts in 3d are desperate for some sort of social acceptance and the ai will reinforce that mindset.   It's quite simply fake and will not stand the test of time.

It reminds me a lot of the season all music festivals in the UK were eco friendly and used bio diesel. The reality was that 90 percent of the generators in the industry failed. we had to drain the tanks and flush the dirty bio diesel out before replacing with normal fuel. Just imagine the work for us with 90 percent of gen-sets broken down during live events.  A small event for say 8 thousand guests uses around 40 generators. That size show only has 4 or 5 engineers.  3 years later we still had generators fail due to the previous bio diesel wrecking the engines.  
Intention and reality are two very different things and I don't see ai in it's current forms lasting the test of time. Unless of course it is used to control and limit our potential and opportunists. The 4th industrial revolution has one thing very different from the previous industrial revolutions, necessity.  There is no trade route or real products involved, only short cuts and efficiency of control. 

Positive effects:
I'm now at 7 paintings on canvas sold and local interest in my work is growing. I have an exhibition next June. I find myself stocking up on brushes, canvas, paints and charcoal rather than adding to my 3d wish list.   I have over 250 re worked and freshly painted 3d models ready to sell in the spring plus my indy driving game. I don't need or want to use any ai and  that is what my patrons / customers expect from me. 

Show me someone who wants to buy ai art and I will be forced to reconsider my thinking.

First Bitcoin, now AI and Datacenters.
I wonder if the PC will be something of a luxury for few people.
Just because of DAZ, i have to get a NVidia for top dollars where i could get an AMD for lesser money.
Nowadays, i hate the future or realizing that i am actually a dinosaur.  A dying breed of living that has no choice anymore.
I kind of like Win11 but the shittyfication of everything is something hard to swallow.
The internet used be great with weird stuff. Now its an add hell with AI on top. AI everywhere. I left social media a long time ago as it didn't benefit me in any way.
I am slowly checking out of the computing world.
So far, my computer still works but upgrading seems to be more of a luxury. And i will not subscribe to something that i don't need. Like a GPU or software.

I've pretty much moved on. Or more to the point, I have pivoted. Very few people are making jewelry with a 3D printer, and even fewer are designing actual jewelry findings for 3D print. I just wish I had more time to concentrate on getting it all out there. Because right now I am learning a whole new skillset for me. Bowling centers in my area just aren't hiring right now, so I picked up a job as a VLT tech. So alongside my search for a new job, and working out of the cash drawer at the one local bowling center that needed a mechanic, I have been making jewelry, and engraving canvas with a laser engraver. Pretty soon here, I will be crafting jewelry findings with clay, and making molds of them so I can produce copies in resin.

I can't walk away from technology, but it has been shifting toward being more and more creative-adverse. So again, I have pivoted. While it still pisses me off that almost nobody gives a shit about the 3D characters I have developed over 2 decades, how many people here can say that they're making jewelry findings with a 3D printer, and using them to make actual physical jewelry? How many can say that they have designed and printed functional figure bases? How many have successfully engraved black-on-white designs on canvas frames that I have hung on my walls? This 3D rendering hobby is toast. AI and expensive hardware have all but killed it. And if the corpos make it so that we have no control of our day-to-day computing, well.... they can't cut my hands off. They can't stop me from using clay or pouring resin molds. Can't stop me from stretching my own canvas on wood frames. Very few people really know me. And I mean *really* know me. I'm pretty hard to kill, creatively speaking. I mean, I used to build show-quality plastic models without the benefit of a workbench or even a desk. I made them on my twin bed. And at that time my only regular "job" was mowing a lawn several times a week for cash. There's a very good reason why I am so opinionated, am a huge advocate of FOSS, and why I am so damned resourceful. I'll refer you all to a quote I came up with a long time ago;

"One thing that nobody can take away from me, is my creativity. I would teach myself to sculpt stone with a hammer and chisel, if the need arose."

So just go and fucking do that thing, do it as if your life depended on it. Because it does. True creatives are rebels. If you're making a lot of money or are popular due to your creations, you aren't a rebel. You're just a part of the herd.

I do my creative stuff for the happiness I have in the process and doing what i want. Hell, it's what I did with my band back on the LES in NYC back in das 80s... I let my partner in musical crime worry about networking and being all chummy, I just got messed up and cranked out the music. Which I still enjoy albeit a tad more episodically and on my own. I'm looking at a starter anduino kit from Elegoo for something different too.. whee. But, I also know how to survive. I can live places most people would fun from, screaming. ANyway.. vive la difference !

OH... now there's an HDD shortage.. Western Digital has announced. The whole inventory went to data fuck centers. *facepalm*
When they crash... I want to see CEOs and investors flying from high windows, like fracking rain.