I agree that Ellen was significant in the race to EVs, but that is definitely in the past. As far as present tense goes, nah.
The tenses are a bit murky "I used to think 'he's useful...'" "this still true..." could kinda go either way, but it sounds like you're saying it applies today, and nah.
This could be anything from someone wanting to study it to develop better defenses to it, to weaponizing it, so I don't know how to feel about the ultimate disposition of their case, but aren't there official channels to go through to get samples of stuff like this? Better to use those channels than to smuggle things with dubious safety protocols even if the intentions were noble.
I can state pretty definitively mostly yes because a lot of my formative years were before the internet really existed as such. Www came about when I was about 15. I was already dialing into BBSes and Gopher and IRC before that, but DSL didn't come about until I was in my twenties and I must've been nearly thirty when broadband came about in my neck of the woods.
My swing from right to left was well under way by that point. The internet certainly didn't hurt that, and I might've hung onto some deep-seated bigotry longer without it, but my die was cast probably before 9/11 and certainly after it.
We know that most of the closed source models are way more complicated, so let's say they take 3 times the cost to generate a response.
This is completely arbitrary and supposition. Is it 3x "regular" response? I have no idea. How do you even arrive at that guess? Is a more complex prompt exponential more expensive? Linearly? Logarithmically? And how complex are we talking when system prompts themselves can be 10k tokens?
Generating an AI voice to speak the lines increases that energy cost exponentially. MIT found that generating a grainy, five-second video at 8 frames per second on an open source model took about 109,000 joules
Why did you go from voice gen to video gen? I mean I don't know whether video gen takes more joules or not but there's no actual connection here. You just decided that a line of audio gen is equivalent to 40 frames of video. What if they generate the text and then use conventional voice synthesizers? And what does that have to do with video gen?
If these estimates are close
Who even knows, mate? You've been completely fucking arbitrary and, shocker, your analysis supports your supposition, kinda. How many Vader lines are you going to get in 30 minutes? When it's brand new probably a lot, but after the luster wears off?
I'm not even telling you you're wrong, just that your methodology here is complete fucking bullshit.
It could be as low as 6500 joules (based on your link) which changes the calculus to 60 lines per half hour. Is it that low? Probably not, but that is every bit as valid as your math and I'm even using your numbers without double checking.
At the end of the day maybe I lose the bet. Fair. I've been wondering for a bit how they actually stack up, and I'm willing to be shown. But I suspect using it for piddly shit day to day is a drop in the bucket compared to all the mass corporate spam. But I'm aware it's nothing but a hypothesis and I'm willing to be proven wrong. But not based on this.
In going to bet your video card uses more energy than the AI while you play the game.
Fuck Trump. I wish I had something more thoughtful to say, but I don't.
There are women who enjoy being traditional housewives, and I don't think it's wrong to give them what they want. That's one of the reasons my wife and I married. I feel fulfilled taking care of her.
That said, that did change over time and I've supported that, too. Now the kids are in their teens and she is working a job that is fulfilling for her and pays for the vacations she likes to take. I still pay for the bills and retirement. It works. Yeah, I have to wash and fold the occasional load of laundry, but I'm not going to lie it's a lot less than 50/50 housework.
Having been a contractor, we aren't always cheaper, but I guess that depends on the industry. I know I was making more than my civilian bosses in IT, but the janitorial service was also contracted out, and I saw a great guy (incidentally, possibly not a legal worker but it's not my business) lose his job because another contractor was cheaper. I wasn't so easy to replace. Having sat in on several interviews, I can attest to that.
I guess that raises the question of whether contractors will be able to remain cheaper without "illegal" labor.
The guy is a total asshole, and the country would be better off without him, but you can't go deporting every single immigrant you find over nothing.
Oh and the guy who threw a Molotov at the Jewish folks isn't much better.
So we will continue to have everything done by contractors then. Cool.
As long as it's your voice coming through at the end of the day, use whatever process helps you get there. IMO
I get why someone would lose respect for him over that, but he's a celeb who's cultivated a wholesome kid-oriented image of inclusivity rather than culture warrior. He's in the "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar" camp which is probably where folks like Fred Roger's would be were he here today.
So I guess I didn't expect much more from him, but I'm also not a huge fan or anything, just enjoy his work, so I'm not in a position to really be disappointed in him.