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Anon conserves power (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 65 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

This article estimates that GPT-4 took around 55 GWh of electricity to train. A human needs maybe 2000 kcal (2.3 kWh) a day and lives 75 years, for a lifetime energy consumption of 63 MWh (or 840x less than just training GPT-4).

So not only do shitty "AI" models use >20x the energy of a human to "think," training them uses the lifetime energy equivalent of hundreds of humans. It's absolutely absurd how inefficient this technology is.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's usually a lot faster in producing outputs though.

[–] RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How many R in strawberry ?

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago

how many R not in strawberry?

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

depends what age your brain is, a 1 year old brain wouldn’t have a clue… and number of mental defects or how intoxicated the person is or whether you have vocalisation issues, health issues, if your brain is shut down/asleep for however many hours overnight it won’t be able to tell you anything, ai ofc doesn’t have these issues

training them uses the lifetime energy equivalent of hundreds of humans

it’s very likely actual electricity use will soon not be an issue, we are already flooded with too much solar power during the day, in maybe as little as 10 or so years we may have so much solar and battery we have essentially unlimited renewable power

on top of all of this ai is in its infancy, who knows where it will be at in 100 years, maybe jobs are a thing of the past and we just spend all day socialising and spending time on our hobbies

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

it’s very likely actual electricity use will soon not be an issue, we are already flooded with too much solar power during the day, in maybe as little as 10 or so years we may have so much solar and battery we have essentially unlimited renewable power

That could be true in the future, but right now a large chunk of our energy comes from fossil fuels.

on top of all of this ai is in its infancy, who knows where it will be at in 100 years, maybe jobs are a thing of the past and we just spend all day socialising and spending time on our hobbies

Any AI that can take a significant amount of work from humanity is going to have an architecture fundamentally different than LLMs. They're not thinking, they're just spitting out plausible sounding sentences.

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