Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency released its energy usage and forecast and has predicted that the total global electricity consumption of data centers is set to top 1 PWh (petawatt-hour) in 2026. This more than doubles its 2022 value and (as the report states) “is equivalent to the electricity consumption of Japan.” SOURCE
It does fuck all for me except make art and customer service worse on average, but yes it certainly will result in countless avoidable deaths if we don’t heavily curb its usage soon as it is projected to Quintuple its power draw by 2029.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I am not talking about things like ChatGPT that rely more on raw compute and scaling than some other approaches and are hosted at massive data centers. I actually find their approach wasteful as well. I am talking about some of the open weights models that use a fraction of the resources for similar quality of output. According to some industry experts that will be the way forward anyway as purely making models bigger has limits and is hella expensive.
Another thing to bear in mind is that training a model is more resource intensive than using it, though that’s also been worked on.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You put power in and you get worthless garbage out. Do the world a favor and just mine crypto.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’ve seen teachers use this stuff and get actually decent results. I’ve also seen papers where people use LLMs to hack into a computer, which is a damn sophisticated task. So you are either badly informed or just lying. While LLMs aren’t perfect and aren’t a replacement for humans, they are still very much useful. To believe otherwise is folly and shows your personal bias.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anybody who uses a bullshit generator in any step of the education process is unqualified.