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If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 (startrek.website)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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[–] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

40,000,000,000 watts

This doesn't add up though. Fortnite's player base is only about 10% PC, and the system requirements are pretty modest. It'll even run on Intel integrated graphics, according to the minimum requirements from Epic.

There's even a modest chunk (~6%) on Nintendo switch, which, according to Nintendo, draws about 7 watts when playing a game in TV mode.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Not to mention, the true resource cost of an AI comes from training. Sure, it costs about as much processing and power as a video game to prompt a trained AI. I can believe that. However it takes many thousands of times as much power and processing to train one, and we aren't even close to halfway through training any general-llm model to the point of being actually useful.

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  • [+] -10 points 10 months ago

    I referenced training above. Training cost is less than developer costs. Thousands of artists on high end PCs in office space use more energy than a data center. But no one notices because people are spread out across offices.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I didn't realize Fortnite was played mainly on other platforms!

    Fortnite's player base is only about 10% PC,

    PlayStation 42.2% Xbox 28.8% Nintendo Switch 12% PC 11% Mobile (iOS, Android) 6%

    https://millionmilestech.com/fortnite-user/#%3A%7E%3Atext=continue+reading+below.-%2CFortnite+Player+Count%2C%28as+of+October+2023%29.

    PS5, Xbox are both 200+ watts.

    So assuming Mobile and Nintendo Switch power use is 0, and all PCs only use 200 watts, that's still 8,000,000,000 watts. For 1 game.

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