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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

[Dr. Who meme format]

Is AI bad?

It Depends. Large corporate AI hosted at a data centre that consumes a nuclear reactor's worth of power and a lake's worth of water for cooling for the purpose of generating slop stolen from Artists and Writers? Yes.

Locally run embedded AI designed for a specific task to automate small processes or enhance the UI experience with little cost to local computing resources because it's been properly optimised? No.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    a datacenter is more efficient than lots of smaller individual computers doing calculations independently. They actually make their stuff as efficient as possible, otherwise it hurts margins. So, if you're against datacenter AI because of power, then just stop using ai. If everyone ran locally, the efficiency would be significantly worse overall.

    I actually hate what llms have become, but efficiency is still not a good way to compare a datacenter to a home computer.

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