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1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands (spectrum.ieee.org)
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[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Solution: remove human

That’s what a lot of news sites are doing, getting rid of large parts of the employees and having the remaining do the same work with LLM. If you burn the no longer needed employees as an alternative heating solution your energy usage drops effectively to zero

[–] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

True, but It's still not what I meant unless they kill those humans. The employees that did that work before still need the 100W. It might be that they can now do something else (or just be unemployed) but the net energy usage is not going down.