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The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. (cdn.statcdn.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I assume they've come up with some generic cost if someone was training each model using cloud compute.

Eeit: below comments confirm this, from the source.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

god i love accounting, it's so much fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But this isn't accounting, this is just the way the study calculated stuff.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lets make our model sound cooler by paying high rates to ourselves!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Man you and the other dude are trying way too hard to be outraged about something that doesn't exist here.

This isn't data that Google, etc claimed. The srudy is attempting to represent what they believe the financial coat to train these models would have been.