Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Stop burning the planet down to generate social media comments

  I mean, I thought it would be obvious my issue was with using AI to do so…

  Even if it had been a serious question.

  But, to be fair I was thinking of what a normal.person would be able to parse, and not people who’s critical thinking had already atrophied from offloading to AI.

  They probably don’t have any idea what I meant and would need it explicitly spelled out.

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  • Nima@leminal.space ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I didn’t realize it even was ai generated. but even if it is, that’s still a fairly off-putting way to respond.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      but even if it is, that’s still a fairly off-putting way to respond.

      No you’re right…

      It’s not like it’s literally burning our planet down and the people profiting off it aren’t tech bro fascists…

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      • Nima@leminal.space ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        attacking someone will never change someone’s mind.

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  • thefactremains@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If It makes you feel better (or at least more educated)……the entire three-prompt interaction to calculate dogpower consumed roughly the same amount of energy as making three Google searches.

    A single Google search uses about 0.3 watt-hours (Wh) of energy. A typical AI chat query with a modern model uses a similar amount, roughly 0.2 to 0.34 Wh. Therefore, my dogpower curiosity discussion used approximately 0.9 Wh in total

    For context, this is less energy than an LED lightbulb consumes in a few minutes. While older AI models were significantly more energy-intensive (sometimes using 10 times more power than a search) the latest versions have become nearly as efficient for common tasks.

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    • verdi@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is not correct and can easily be disproven, even if one assumes less than 480g/Kwh.

      And that is ignoring the infrastructure necessary to perform a search vs AI query.

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      • thefactremains@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re absolutely right! I was using older, broader estimates. According to the research you cited (“Energy costs of communicating with AI”), the energy use is much lower than I estimated.

        The paper shows that an efficient AI model (Qwen 7B) used only 0.058 watt-hours (Wh) per query. Based on that data, my entire 3-prompt chat only used about 0.17 Wh. That’s actually less energy than a single Google search (~0.3 Wh). Thanks for sharing the source and correcting me.

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