Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?
www.newyorker.com
As the stock prices of Big Tech companies continue to rise and eye-popping I.P.O.s reëmerge, echoes of the dot-com era are getting louder.
    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      “State services” is database lookups and billing. Back in the 90’s, I supported 10k users (1.5k active at any moment) on a Pentium 3 with 512MB of Ram.

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Also the number of supported users does not scale linearly with the number of CPU cores

          US population has grown 25% from the year 2000. Other than Anti AI detection, everything worked on the hardware of 25 years ago. Single core performance has gone up more than 25% over the past 25 years.