Scott Herkelman Announces His Departure from AMD

[stimpy88]

I don't have a business. I honestly have no idea what I'd ever use AI for.

So nobody else should then?

I have a friend that does nothing but affiliate links and search engine optimization, and he only used A.I. since it became available because it can do 50 optimized ads in a day, while he can do 8 manually, and his colleague did about 12. He has now fired his guy that was employed to help him, saving him money. He makes 6 times more money out of it now, after years of doing it manually. If the government regulated it away, I could easily get him back up and running on consumer hardware, and not need to worry about how to afford some nGreedia A.I. card for $80,000, assuming you as a private citizen could ever even get hold of one, as the hardware itself could be regulated to keep it out of the hands of the private citizen.

At the moment A.I. is mostly a buzzword, it's very inaccurate, and has limited use, requires expensive hardware, and most businesses and governments have no actual idea what it's good for, or what it can do, like you and me. But they fear it, and they fear missing out on it, and that will mean knee-jerk reactions and over regulation in some cases. They are still caught by surprise, so legislation and regulation have not yet become the order of the day, but it probably will without A.I. being able to run on consumer hardware.

 

[AusWolf]

So nobody else should then?

I have a friend that does nothing but affiliate links and search engine optimization, and he only used A.I. since it became available because it can do 50 optimized ads in a day, while he can do 8 manually, and his colleague did about 12. He has now fired his guy that was employed to help him, saving him money. He makes 6 times more money out of it now, after years of doing it manually. If the government regulated it away, I could easily get him back up and running on consumer hardware, and not need to worry about how to afford some nGreedia A.I. card for $80,000, assuming you as a private citizen could ever even get hold of one, as the hardware itself could be regulated to keep it out of the hands of the private citizen.

Did you read what I said?

Regardless of performance, I just don't see much point in it on a home user level.

 

[stimpy88]

Did you read what I said?

But he is a home user. It's a side-biz for him. Like if you decided to do what he does, so it's relevant to our conversation.

 

[AusWolf]

But he is a home user. It's a side-biz for him. Like if you decided to do what he does, so it's relevant to our conversation.

So a side-business is not business? What is it, then? There's home users (using a PC for entertainment and/or casual work or study) and there's business users (using a PC for profit or for work as a company employee). Just because your business happens to be the same place that you call home, you're still a business user.