Posted by JonChesterfield 11/12/2025
Their bottom line summed it up perfectly.
"We’re not saying “never use CUDA-on-AMD compilers or CUDA-to-HIP translators”. We’re saying don’t judge AMD based on them."
...sounds like asking for a 1:1 mapping to me. If you meant asking the AI to transmute the code from NV-optimal to AMD-optimal as it goes along, you could certainly try doing that, but the idea is nothing more than AI fanfic until someone shows it actually working.
There's a lot of handwaving in this "just use AI" approach. You have to figure out a way to guarantee correctness.
We asked it to make a plan for how to fix the situation, but it got stuck.
“Ok, I’m helping the people build an AI to translate NVIDIA codes to AMD”
“I don’t have enough resources”
“Simple, I’ll just use AMD chips to run an AI code translator, they are under-utilized. I’ll make a step by step process to do so”
“Step 1: get code kernels for the AMD chips”
And so on.
AI aint magic.
You need more effort to manage, test and validate that.
This is outsourcing the task to AI researchers.
The whole point of having an online discussion forum is to exchange and create new ideas. What you are advocating is essentially "maybe we can stop generating new ideas because we don't have to. we should just sit and wait"... Well, yes, no, maybe. but this is not what I expect to get from here.
There isn't even a concrete definition of intelligence, let alone AGI, so no it's not.
That's just mindless hype at this point.
Humans have problems with IMO problems, and this kind of kernel translation is a problem which is easier to humans, where there's more probably actually more data and a problem where the system can get feedback by simply running it and measuring memory use, runtime etc.
It'd be a system and no one has developed it, but I think it can be done with present LLMs as a core mechanism. They just need to be trained with RL on this specific problem.
Anyone with a good LLM, from Google to Mistral could probably do this, but it'd be a project.
Be honest and you won't have to fend-off accusations of bad-faith. I'm inclined to agree with your overall point of AI being overhyped, but you've gutted your own logic so hard in the process that your stance is unrecognizable. You've developed a meaningfully ambiguous stance to an elaborate and deeply incorrect series of arguments.
Your future comments are definitely going to be flagged unless you switch to a good-faith writing style.