so you’re saying it’s a niche toy you can get if you really want one, but nobody’s pushing that shit on you, and if you never want to talk about one again in your life, you can probably do that?
I would like if large language models were in this position. I don’t think you understand the degree to which our productive capacity and infrastructure are committed to this technology. it’s a lot. basically all the cutting edge computer chips being made are specialist chips for processing large (whatever) models, including the engineering to back it. that means everything else is bumped down a generation or five.
then there’s the amount of electricity being put towards these things-we are in a climate disaster, we do not have green energy, and these things are drawing in the high GW/low TW of energy.
water is also a lot more precarious than a lot of people want to think about. these things are using lots and lots of good drinkable water to cool those specialist chips, then just being throws out, because I assume it’s cheaper than cooling the hot water back down.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
everyone remembers tomogatchi, they were like a digital houseplant.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
cool, but where do you get them?
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
You can still buy new ones. Take a nap.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
somehow I get the impression all this defense of tomogatchis is not about tomogatchis.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
the used market
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
so you’re saying it’s a niche toy you can get if you really want one, but nobody’s pushing that shit on you, and if you never want to talk about one again in your life, you can probably do that?
I would like if large language models were in this position. I don’t think you understand the degree to which our productive capacity and infrastructure are committed to this technology. it’s a lot. basically all the cutting edge computer chips being made are specialist chips for processing large (whatever) models, including the engineering to back it. that means everything else is bumped down a generation or five.
then there’s the amount of electricity being put towards these things-we are in a climate disaster, we do not have green energy, and these things are drawing in the high GW/low TW of energy.
water is also a lot more precarious than a lot of people want to think about. these things are using lots and lots of good drinkable water to cool those specialist chips, then just being throws out, because I assume it’s cheaper than cooling the hot water back down.