No no no. See, this is why AI is so fucked up. It doesn't matter if it's human or driverless. Cars aren't supposed to RAM anything!!!
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Obviously a company that makes RAM will say RAM is important, what else would we expect?
I'd love to know what Waymo vehicles have though.
They saw Jensen say engineers should be burning tokens to keep warm and thought "fuck it, let's do this".
LIDAR. They have lidar.
"You know that thing we sell? Buy a shitload of it."
More like, you know that thing we used to sell and now we don't because we bet everything on ai datacenters? Well now we bet on robots because we raised the price so high nobody will afford to buy that thing we used to sell and we can't go back to that price because the line must go up!
I'm reading that headline as: Major electronics company explains why self driving cars and home robots will be unaffordable.
Only because of current RAM prices and artificial scarcity keeping those prices high.
300GB of RAM shouldn't be that expensive. I have 1/3 of that in my server (bought years ago). If it wasn't for the AI bullshit, 300GB would be fairly reasonable to buy in a couple of years time.
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I imagine pople stealing RAM from cars.
Like catalytic converters?
They're almost certainly going to be soldered chips instead of traditional ram sticks.
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when the loot chests move around the map
They think that makes them sound smart and important.
It actually makes them sound incompetent.
Whoever at micron that said this is obviously some novel kind of idiot.
Old kinda idiot. Marketing Dept pumping stock with "white paper".
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Jesus. People are still talking about self-driving cars?
This is an idea that should be shelved for a good 20-30 years, honestly.
We'd need global collaboration to come up with a universal standard applied to all cars (regardless of price). If it can't be a standard, then it's a bullshit idea. Competing standards and companies simply means abandoned tech everywhere and everything, thinking their tech is best, nothing works together, issues across the board, and high cost to customers.
We should just build walkable cities. It doesn’t even require any new knowledge, we can start right now and there are even many places in the US, the shittest of us all, where there’s honestly nothing really stopping us.
Self-driving cars are dumb because they are a tonne of work to ultimately solve zero problems when we could do basically nothing special and improve everyone’s lives within our lifetimes.
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We went to the moon with Kbs and now cars need Gbs?
There is a lot less traffic/pedestrians in space.
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Of course they do. They are extremely impartial on the matter and I trust their judgment.
Each will also need a portable nuclear reactor and a swimming pool filled with the blood of innocents and ice cubes made out of children's tears, for cooling purposes.
What the hell does the President of France know about RAM!? /s
No no no no no! That's Emmanuel MAcron! This is his little brother, Emmanuel MIcron!
I definitely misread Micron as Macron, and was confused why the French president was chiming in on this conversation
I'm sure Micron aren't bias at all...
Ah, yes, the ol' "X needs 300 of whatever it is I sell" gambit.
If I were the boss of a RAM company, would I say then that the world needs more rubber tires, or would I say the world needs more RAM?
The RAM cartel says things need to use more RAM. ...k
This is like an oil company saying you will need more oil.
Shovel vendor forecasts massive uptick in hole digging.
This sounds reasonable
Nah, it just needs a team of Indian guys to step in whenever the collision alarms go off.
Is their ram going to become the new catalytic converters
This is not credible. A self promoting stock pump and dump PR. Vision AI models are smaller than text models. They do need fast/faster GPUs, but less memory. Very narrow purposed AI/Neural Network models need less memory because the memory is more about storing facts than logic/reasoning capability. LLM breakthroughs in benchmark score/GB are currently having more gains by smaller models than frontier largest models. 32gb is a reasonable ceiling for memory requirement. Robots can swap in task specific AI models as well.
Didn’t Musk promise like a decade ago that Tesla self driving would run fine on their “hardware v2” computer, then a few years later that it would require v3, and then v4 before he finally stopped making such promises?
Micron make RAM. I don't think we should give any more credence to their claims than we do to Elon's. Their goal here is to pump their share price, nothing more.
300? Come on. We all know it comes in powers of 2.
AI write that?
it's funny because I can run a coral TPU on 4gb that can identify obstacles in live streams.
I'm a fucking genius for figuring it out. make me the CTO of Micron and I will share my knowledge.
I literally don't want self driving cars. Fucking stop.
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