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Funnily enough, bitcoin mining still uses at least about 3x more power that AI at the moment, while providing less value imo. AI power use is also dwarfed by ot
by __loam 2y ago
Funnily enough, bitcoin mining still uses at least about 3x more power that AI at the moment, while providing less value imo. AI power use is also dwarfed by other industries even in computing. We should still consider whether it's worth it, but most research and development on LLMs in corporate right now seems to be focused on making them more efficient, and therefore both cheaper and less power intensive, to run. There's also stuff like Apple intelligence that is moving it out to edge devices with much more efficient chips.
I'm still a big critic of AI generally but they're definitely not as bad as crypto which is shocking.
- illiac786 2y agoDo you have a nice reference for this? I could really use something like this, this topic comes up a lot in my social circle.
- __loam 2y agohttps://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2024/08/18/is-ai-eating-all-the-energy-part-1-of-2/ https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2024/08/18/is-ai-eating-all-th...
- Ferret7446 2y agoHow do you measure the value of bitcoin, if not by its market cap? Do you interview everyone and ask them how much they're willing to pay for a service that allows them to transfer money digitally without institutional oversight/bureaucracy?
- __loam 2y agoThe amount of power being used to support a system that can do 5 transactions a second is disgusting.
- Ferret7446 2y agoAs opposed to what other system that can do a single transaction in any time frame without individual or organizational interdiction?
- __loam 2y agoAs opposed to financial systems that actually work and are used by millions of people.