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A disappointing analysis. It discusses cost in isolation from revenue, and raises environmental impacts without mentioning that the major cloud computing provid
by rictic 3y ago
A disappointing analysis. It discusses cost in isolation from revenue, and raises environmental impacts without mentioning that the major cloud computing providers where the largest models are trained and run are carbon neutral.
Better results for general purpose tasks are likely to find willing buyers at prices orders of magnitude higher than even the largest language models of today. In most cases, the best alternative is human labor, and for more latency-sensitive cases, there is no alternative to a language model available at any price.
- wokkel 3y agoRegarding carbon neutrality: yeah, by using their enourmous capital/pricing power to buy all green power relegating the rest of the country to either use greenwashed grey power or outright grey power. So learning is green, it's just the rest that is poluting....
- _Algernon_ 3y ago"Carbon neutrality" is shameless greenwashing while carbon credits in large part remain a scam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offsets_and_credits#Concerns_with_forestry_projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offsets_and_credits#Con...
- hn_thrwn 3y agoCarbon neutral is the indulgence of our age. And about as effective.