100Gw is equivalent to the power used by 72 million Americans or 21.8% of this country.

We’re in for some insano climate change if we use coal, natural gas, and other extremely dirty energy sources to add this much power to the grid every year.

Altman is IMO, the most dangerous person on the planet outside of Trump and his cabal, and perhaps Netanyahu.

And the real wild part is that chatgpt is one of the shittiest llms out there. You can do better with a local model on a consumer video card, I can run ollama on my own busted laptop chip with 2gb vram.

Fucked.

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[–] 41 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Give me energy. Energy me. Energy now. Me a energy needing a lot now.

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Thats about (3) Three Gorges Dams of new power generation, every year. When was the last time the US completed a project anywhere near the scale of just (1)?

    It's simply not happening, no matter how much money they throw at it.

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    The American economy is a runaway freight train on a collision course with reality.

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    It’s peak capitalism. They managed to siphon all the money out of making something only this time there is no “something” being made. All the labors of the world to make a big box with nothing inside.

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    You can do better with a local model on a consumer video card, I can run ollama on my own busted laptop chip with 2gb vram.

    Shout out to the Ollama devs, and llama.cpp devs. Absolute wizards.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 11 months ago

    Yeah I'm gonna play around with doing image gen on this old laptop but I need to update my video drivers tomorrow. Sure it takes like 3-4 to gen a response in an llm with my low vram but at least I know it's not killing the planet.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    the hyperbole indicates sarcasm

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    Just the first $1 trillion

    jesse-wtf

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    Great Scot!

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    With the shutdown and this entire AI bubble, I'm anxious for what happens next when the US shits the bed.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    You all think this is a bubble. I'm just saying the singularity already happened, and we're just experiencing the outcomes of it.

    Doesn't it seem insane how much money they're spending on AI that no one asked for?

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I've got a conspiracy that most of the data centers aren't used for chat bots and slop images, but like 90% of them are mass surveillance and they've built an even bigger panopticon.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    They already have the tech to record all our conversations with our smartphones. They just lacked the means to proactively analyze the exabytes of data instead of first flagging people as "persons of interest." AI is their attempt at developing that tech.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago

    Energy me. Energy now. Me a energy needing a lot now

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That’s a lot of blown up Appalachian mountaintops.

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    Altman's other business is a nuclear startup.

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    Don't worry. These silocone valley kind have their attention span fucked by microdosing acid between two tantric sex cult meeting. He'll probably forget about it in 3 months and focus on living in a pod inside a vulcano or some stupid shit

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    The human brain only needs 20 watts.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I need one morbillion power please

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  • [–] [B] 2 points 11 months ago

    A Reddit link was detected in your post. Here are links to the same location on alternative frontends that protect your privacy.

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