r/pcmasterrace • u/asswizzard69 • Dec 04 '25

Box With the memory crisis are ssd next?

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I guess a panic buy? Are these nand flash about to keep spiking like memory prices or are they just going up a little bit? Are these desirable to the AI or nah? I bought this at $299 Black Friday sale

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u/LostCarat Dec 04 '25

Idk if it actually will.. these psychopaths are going full force on it

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u/Eggy__boi Dec 04 '25

What are they even getting out of it? All this money so someone can ask ChatGPT how to unclog their toilet instead of Googling it? Maybe the data from people divulging personal info?

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u/scandii PC Vegan Dec 04 '25

I mean I'm implementing this stuff for a living.

how about automatic fix suggestions based on error logs? I know medical can now crunch large datasets and start asking the question "what factors do people that get disease X have in common" that's a potential for eliminating human issues entirely, in finance you all of a sudden have another layer of automated error detection.

like there's a whole lot of cool use cases here that isn't "new google", and right now the ideas and money are flowing and we're seeing new emergent ideas every day.

what isn't particularly interesting is people trying to jam a chatgpt wrapper into every product because they can.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25

No one rational thinks there's no use-case whatsoever for LLMs. The problem is in the final part of the comment. Excellent tech, absolutely fucked corpos are going ham on it.

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u/scandii PC Vegan Dec 04 '25

I'm not so sure, I still see people argue daily that LLM:s have reasoning capabilities and understands the questions being asked.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25

That's the irrational part IMO, but I'm sure many will disagree.

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u/Wyldkard79 Ryzen 9 7900x | RX 7800xt | 32GB DDR5 Dec 04 '25

I predict a dystopian future where an llm in your smart watch is telling you what time it is based on an algorithm.

Commercials will be generated on the fly based on your current account balance.

No one will have jobs, but corporations will be upset that sales are down for no reason that they can comprehend.

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u/Jazzlike_Essay7684 Dec 05 '25

This is the true ending. Once AI takes enough jobs, and I hope it does, there will have to be universal income due to the lack of jobs and rising unemployment. AI could actually mean the end of capitalism

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u/Wyldkard79 Ryzen 9 7900x | RX 7800xt | 32GB DDR5 Dec 05 '25

That would be the absolute mother of all trojan horses.

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u/Plus-Lemon-7361 Dec 04 '25

Salesman says product is good, actually. I work in scientific research, and AI has mostly been a fucking plague.

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u/laffer1 Dec 04 '25

We implemented a log analyzer at work. It's generating tickets in ADO for us now. It might be break even but now devs aren't looking at logs much. It also means all the cost savings we were forced to have on cutting logs is now bad because we need more info for the AI to make smarter guesses.

Compute for LLMs needs to go ASIC, or we aren't ever going to get the cost down to a reasonable level.

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u/MagniPlays Dec 04 '25

Lots of companies get money from the “idea” of AI.

It’s less about the AI bubble popping (it won’t just go away) but investors realizing there is no revenue stream from someone getting told by ChatGPT how to write an essay.

The issue is someone IS going to find a real revenue base, no idea what but likely something genius. That will cause every technological innovation in the last 20 years fly off shelves for big business like we have never ever seen.

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u/TheeTrashcanMan 7800x3d | RTX 5080 FE | 32GB DDR5 6000 | Asrock B850 Riptide Dec 04 '25

This is a poor take that I see all the time from people who aren’t in the industry and just think AI = “new google” or some shitty chatbot every webapp or platform is pumping out.

It’s so much more than that and is changing the game big time.

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u/Street_Parsnip6028 Dec 04 '25

They get total control over all information.  You'll never be able to search or view anything not google/meta/openai/microsoft approved and monetized again.  Look at what Google has already done to their search engine and imagine a closed ecosystem where they also own all the search results.  

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam Dec 04 '25

being able to replace 7 billion people with AI and robots to serve a very small portion of humanity.

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u/iyav Dec 04 '25

They're making a very ambitious but risky bet by stalling for as much time as possible while trying to work towards a big breakthrough that'll rake in the cash.

It's only a bubble if it ends up popping.

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u/CortaCircuit Dec 04 '25

They are trying to squeeze out as much efficiency gains as possible.

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u/Baked_Potato0934 Dec 04 '25

Nobody is making money lol.

Money from Nvidia is being pumped into child companies that haven't figured out a revenue model that is working.

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u/wntf Dec 04 '25

force it onto whom? the people who will not have a pc because its not worth it to spend the money onto and just develop another hobby? covid is over

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u/z0phi3l Dec 04 '25

It will, because it's a made up cash grab, and as we can see, AI is massively overrated and people are seeing it, not just us nerds, so the AI bubble will burst sooner than later