This is how I understood it too.
Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoThere is a connection, but I don’t think it’s a satisfying one.
There’s some thought that the weights behind neural networks would take less power consumption if they were on analog chips. So yeah, it’s for LLMs to get bigger. Reducing CO2 emissions by not doing LLM slop is apparently off the table.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 day ago
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Not to be argumentative, but has this ever been something the consumer market has done with an emerging “core” technology? I don’t see how this was ever realistically on the table.
AI slop is an unfortunate fact of life at this point. If it’s inevitable, we may as well make it as not terrible as possible.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
That’s what regulations are for. We’ve been asking for CO2 regulations for decades, but the argument is almost always “we can’t reduce dirty energy production until we have enough power to replace it all without downscaling.” Then they invent stuff like crypto to drain any excess power. That crashed, then AI suddenly appears to drain it. I’m convinced it’s all a conspiracy to keep dirty energy companies profitable. The timing is just too convenient.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Nothing inevitable about it. People aren’t going to be running local models en masse; that will be about as popular as self-hosting Internet services. People are largely reliant on centralized datacenter models, and those will shut down as the bubble pops.