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A single international flight literally consumes a swimming pools worth of fuel. a few GPUs is nothing especially as we transition to wind and solar.
by ryan93 4y ago
A single international flight literally consumes a swimming pools worth of fuel. a few GPUs is nothing especially as we transition to wind and solar.
- fock 4y agowell, then stop flying and the useless content-creation and let's get back to our "few GPUs" for consumption, when living, food and flying have transitioned to wind and solar. Then people can start setting up their text-based Holodeck-precursor consuming 1kW during usage. Just be clear: the alternative to letting a future GPT-derivative write your novel is to go to the library and pick a book. That works now and has negligible emissions. A future GPT (currently you won't get a consistent long form text) might do the same - optimistically it will do it on only 2-3kWh of energy (which amounts to the cost of creating a physical book). Granted, you only can sustain a human on that for a day, but then the humans don't go away because of AI. Conclusion to me: the things are fascinating and so are H-bombs... Question: which kind of time do you expect people to spend with these models? Which human needs will they satisfy? How will their energy consumption then still be negligible?