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Another question, why does nobody care about the enormous and absurd energy cost to train and run models?

• john2x 2y ago
  Line go up. The only three words that matter nowadays.
  • cmcaleer 2y ago
    Unless we’re talking about solar’s cost per watt, then line go down. Down down down.
    • exabrial 2y ago
      Not at all. That energy could have been used to cool someone’s house, filter water, charge a car, but instead it’s being used to write an esaay for someone’s homework while coal is being burned.
• pixl97 2y ago
  >why does nobody care about the enormous and absurd energy cost to ___________ Just fill in the blank and you've described human history after we started digging up coal in mass. Now, beyond that, think of it this way... You're very rich, but to keep having new yachts and pleasure islands and jumbo jets you need for the plebs around you to keep breeding and then spending 18 years to train them not to be completely stupid, then another 4 to 10 years for them to be experts, all while hoping they don't get hit by a car or off themselves. That's a massive amount of resource expenditures if you're looking to make yourself even richer. Now think of it this way. Instead of spending a lot of effort training those meat popsicles, you train a machine. Yea, it takes a lot of time, effort, and energy to get it where it needs to go. But after you have this 'general' machine, you never need other humans again. How much energy will that save you on your goal of world domination?
• vizzier 2y ago
  If the marginal utility AI is less than the costs of the energy needed to use it then presumably capitalism will solve this problem?