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Very interesting! What about like web search/general-use task prompts? I feel like that scales differently, but feel like it could go either way? Like how man
by beepbooptheory 4y ago
Very interesting! What about like web search/general-use task prompts? I feel like that scales differently, but feel like it could go either way? Like how many pages do I have to visit and render to match the energy used by GPT answering the same question?
- PaulHoule 4y agoEstimates of anything that involve the internet are often shockingly high and unreliable. See these two papers that come to opposite results (not just by a little but a lot) https://www.euronews.com/green/2020/02/17/is-playing-video-games-making-climate-change-worse https://www.euronews.com/green/2020/02/17/is-playing-video-g... and https://gizmodo.com/downloaded-games-have-a-larger-carbon-footprint-than-bl-1630230310 https://gizmodo.com/downloaded-games-have-a-larger-carbon-fo... You have to consider not just the server and client costs but how to attribute the cost of all the routers and networking parts between them that are invisible. Networking hardware can be particularly wasteful when it is sitting there waiting for a packet which has to be attributed somehow.