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Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?

An entire state government could run on your phone but requires an entire data center because it’s written in JavaScript that emulates the original COBOL code that ran the government in the 1960’s.

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bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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- Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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  - bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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    Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
    
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