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Cray versus Raspberry Pi

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Re: Cray versus Raspberry Pi

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Post by delichon »

> but then again if you'd showed me an RPi5 back in 1977 I would have said "nah, impossible" so who knows?

I was reading lots of scifi in 1977, so I may have tried to talk to the pi like Scotty trying to talk to the mouse in Star Trek IV. And since you can run an LLM and text to speech on an RPi5, it might have answered.

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

delichon wrote: post #3

> but then again if you'd showed me an RPi5 back in 1977 I would have said "nah, impossible" so who knows? I was reading lots of scifi in 1977, so I may have tried to talk to the pi like Scotty trying to talk to the mouse in Star Trek IV. And since you can run an LLM and text to speech on an RPi5, it might have answered.

Someday real soon, kids being shown episodes of 'Knight Rider' by their grandparents won't understand why a talking car was so futuristic.

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Post by sublinear »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #5
delichon wrote: post #3

> but then again if you'd showed me an RPi5 back in 1977 I would have said "nah, impossible" so who knows? I was reading lots of scifi in 1977, so I may have tried to talk to the pi like Scotty trying to talk to the mouse in Star Trek IV. And since you can run an LLM and text to speech on an RPi5, it might have answered.

Someday real soon, kids being shown episodes of 'Knight Rider' by their grandparents won't understand why a talking car was so futuristic.

Was that point not almost a decade ago?

Re: Cray versus Raspberry Pi

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Post by v9v »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #4
hoppp wrote: post #2

The cray 1 did look futuristic like something out of star trek. It kinda reminded me of the trash can mac. I wonder if it was inspiration for it

If I ever have reason to build a Pi cluster, I'm putting in a Cray X-MP shaped case.

Related: a Pi Pico cluster that looks like a Cray computer https://hackaday.com/2023/04/09/parallel-computing-on-the-pi...

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Post by Cheer2171 »

> If AI systems continue to improve at the current rate and we combine that with improvements in hardware that are measured in orders of magnitude every 15 years or so then it stands to reason that we'll get that "super-intelligent GAI" system any day now.

Oh come off it now. This could have been just a good blog post that didn't make me want to throw my phone across the room. GenAI is a hell of a drug. It's shocking how many technical professionals fall into the hype and become irrationally exuberant.

Re: Cray versus Raspberry Pi

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

sublinear wrote: post #6
Mountain_Skies wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someday real soon, kids being shown episodes of 'Knight Rider' by their grandparents won't understand why a talking car was so futuristic.

Was that point not almost a decade ago?

Not really. My 1983 Datsun would talk, but it couldn't converse. Alexa and Siri couldn't hold a conversation anywhere near the level KITT did. There's a big difference. With LLMs, we're getting close.
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