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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
(www.technologyreview.com)
Its worth it for school essays and prawn jesus though.
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Does the article answer the question of what is the footprint of a prompt?
Basically nothing worth getting angry about
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Local models cannot be worse than playing a video game.
There's low-VRAM models for video that approach one frame per second... on the kind of mid-range cards that'd have low VRAM. A 30 Hz clip lasting 10 seconds would take about five minutes. When was the last time you played a really fancy-looking game for less than five minutes?
Now creating the models, yeah, that's still lumbering giants burning money. But mostly thanks to Jevon's paradox. How many watt-hours are needed per hand-wavy unit of training has gone down - so they do a lot more of it. And the result is that laptop-sized models today beat datacenter-sized models a year ago.
And the result is that laptop-sized models today beat datacenter-sized models a year ago.
that's hardly believable. do you have any statistics on this? is this some special edition of a heavy, high performance gaming laptop, with an external gpu attached, and a datacenter consisting of 2 racks almost filled to half?
It is mainly due to the orders of magnitude advances in bullshitting people about AI's capabilities.
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