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28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower (supercarblondie.com)
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Maker website: https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-density-world-record-pushing-state-of-the-art-electric-motor-to-staggering-new-59kw-kg-benchmark/

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[–] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Stop burning the planet down to generate social media comments

I mean, I thought it would be obvious my issue was with using AI to do so...

Even if it had been a serious question.

But, to be fair I was thinking of what a normal.person would be able to parse, and not people who's critical thinking had already atrophied from offloading to AI.

They probably don't have any idea what I meant and would need it explicitly spelled out.

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

    I didn't realize it even was ai generated. but even if it is, that's still a fairly off-putting way to respond.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    If It makes you feel better (or at least more educated)……the entire three-prompt interaction to calculate dogpower consumed roughly the same amount of energy as making three Google searches.

    A single Google search uses about 0.3 watt-hours (Wh) of energy. A typical AI chat query with a modern model uses a similar amount, roughly 0.2 to 0.34 Wh. Therefore, my dogpower curiosity discussion used approximately 0.9 Wh in total.

    For context, this is less energy than an LED lightbulb consumes in a few minutes. While older AI models were significantly more energy-intensive (sometimes using 10 times more power than a search) the latest versions have become nearly as efficient for common tasks.

    For even more context, It would take approximately 9 Lemmy comments to equal the energy consumed by my 3-prompt dogpower calculation discussion.

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

    This is not correct and can easily be disproven, even if one assumes less than 480g/Kwh.

    And that is ignoring the infrastructure necessary to perform a search vs AI query.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    You’re absolutely right! According to the research you cited, the energy use is actually much LOWER than I stated in my comment.

    Your source shows that an efficient AI model (Qwen 7B) used only 0.058 watt-hours (Wh) per query.

    Based on that, my entire 3-prompt chat only used about 0.17 Wh. That’s actually less energy than a single Google search (~0.3 Wh). Thanks for sharing the source and correcting me.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    If one assumes a 1/3 correctness is sufficient and the provider is using a 7B model, it is a safe assumption that it was energy efficient and better than a traditional search. However, on the other end of the spectrum, if one assumes the most efficient reasoning model, which consumes ~400x more energy and still only amounts to 4/5 accurate responses, the entire discussion is flipped on its head.

    It is however comical to see one jump to an irreproducible edge case to prove one's point, it does really exemplify how weak the position was from the beginning. Intellectual dishonesty galore.

    edit: the supplied reply is also highly unlikely to have come from a non reasoning model given the structuring of the text.

    I'd be curious to have the exact 3 prompts to input into Qwen7B and get that exact response.

    edit edit: still no prompts...

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