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[–] 116 points 1 year ago (27 children)

using AI to create these images is really gonna help with the hole in the floor

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We're losing this battle so quickly. It's unreal to me how fucked we are.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    In what way won't it help? Be specific.

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    How energy intensive?
    Like, compared to random cat videos on youtube n all?

    And would the addition of renewable energy be able to handle it?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Using it, not all that energy intensive (one llm use is roughly the same as 3 pre-ai-bullshit google searches iirc). Training it, very energy intensive.

    Yes it would but we haven't even replaced all our previous needs with renewables so it aint helping.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Using it, not all that energy intensive

    According to this article, this is not considered true anymore:

    As conversations with experts and AI companies made clear, inference, not training, represents an increasing majority of AI’s energy demands and will continue to do so in the near future. It’s now estimated that 80–90% of computing power for AI is used for inference.

    I think there's a reason why OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Facebook hold the energy consumption and water usage numbers so close to their chest.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Oh damn. Very good article btw.

    According to numbers floating around online, thiat would mean one llama query is around as expensive as 10 google searches. And it's likely that those costs will increase further.

    It still seems like the biggest factor here is the scale of adaptation. Unfortunately the total energy costs of AI might even scale exponentially since the more complex the queries get, the better the responses will likely be. And that will further drive adaptation.

    This pace is so clearly unsustainable it's horrifying, and while it was obvious to some degree, it seems it's worse than I thought.

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