This should be a conspiracy theory, yet Nvidia has rather shamefully added fuel to the fire with there recent decision to just outright not even show gaming on their Quarterly Reports: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-no-longer-reports-sales-of-graphics-solutions-as-a-separate-segment-posts-eye-watering-usd81-6-billion-q1-profit-thanks-to-ai-boom . While the conspiracy has been brewing online since at least the 20 series back in 2020ish, with Nvidia going all in on Raytracing and DLSS at the cost of price…it has only grown as AI boomed into a bubble that is only not popping because of the concerted effort of the Tech companies to keep the fire going despite obvious reality that GPT and Claude aren’t going to become robot gods any day soon. Indeed, a growing belief is that Nvidia is going to any day now wipe their feet of the entire situation and just utterly spin off their gaming division because it just is taking to much time and effort in comparison to the actual money in just selling shovels back-and-forth with one another. So, why haven’t they? Nvidia still sells (horribly inflated and overpriced now) consumer electronics. You can buy a 5090 on amazon right now, its just 4k USD. Enter, Gamers Nexus with a genuine answer: “they want to make it unaffordable to sell you subscriptions and services they control entirely” Gamer’s Nexus on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrJVdF2me0&t=1638s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUqQrlLV0tU&t=363s The idea is rather simple: Personal computing goes through too many loops, is a singular purchase, and is an industry that doesn’t make a lot of money actually in comparison to data center and Business-to-Business transactions. So create a subscription service (Gforce Now), offer it at netflix prices, utterly starve and make owning hardware and a PC unaffordable and far too expensive for anyone but the actually rich and powerful itself, and when a large enough amount of people come into the service jack up prices like Netflix does constantly. Its less effort for them (in that they only need server GPUs) and not selling to any consumer can allow increasing lockdown on their entire market by making their own ‘Personal AI’ which seems to be an astoundingly obvious ploy to just force a GPT-like onto their users and call it hardware. My question beyond if this at all makes sense (if it is more or less just a conspiracy pushed by Gamers Nexus and many a comment-section) or if it’s more complex than that and like anything its a case of hysteria. Because to me, it does make sense, because I just genuinely believe this hype-machine is astroturfing for worse things: Subscription based marketing, harsh manpower cuts in business, data collection by oligarchs and tech conglomerates, and of course a way to shill crypto or nft like crap because its similar people. I don’t know if this is going to be a change my mind, but clearly I want to at least see if I am missing something obvious because I clearly fucking hate AI to much to see the other side as equal without offering an olive branch. Since I genuinely don’t want to believe this is a massive conspiracy to make the world worse by tech oligarchs who thought cyberpunk is cool because it sucks? submitted by /u/Kyokyodoka
Originally posted by u/Kyokyodoka on r/ArtificialInteligence