I work on AI and it feels to me like you literally don't understand it at all based on your comments in this thread. But you sure do have all the buzzwords down pat.
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drdabbles@lemmy.world 7 months agoHow much electricity was used to train Copilot? How much MORE is going to be used in the future.
Feels to me like you don’t understand the problem set and you’re just impressed by a tool spitting out guesses based on millions of examples it hoovered up.
mrnotoriousman@kbin.social 7 months ago
FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 months ago
He thinks LLMs could be replaced by a "text template", so yeah, this guy's clearly not actually tried using it for anything meaningful before.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re right, a template would be more specific to the question and guaranteed accurate, while not taking GPU years to train and untold quantities of stolen content. So, I guess a template would be a much better solution.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I would love an example of something I got wrong.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 months ago
Oh no, electricity! If only there were some way to generate more of it.
This "it uses electricity" thing is such a weird objection. Yes, it uses electricity. That's why it costs money to run. People pay that money to run it, and if it wasn't helpful enough to be worth that money they wouldn't pay it.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, for those of you that don’t know your ass from your elbow, these systems are predicted to reach 1 gigawatt per data center up from 50 to 75MW, 100 at the peak. So a 10 to 20 times increase in power, now, I don’t know where you think we’re going to get 10 to 20 times. More power for every single built data center, but you’re smoking crack if you think it’s reasonable.
Not only that, but there’s this little issue we’ve been noticing for the past 100 years called climate change. Have you heard of it? It’s truly idiotic to consider increasing the demands of these data centers by 10 to 20 times while we’re talking about complete global catastrophe within 50 to 100 years. Monumentally stupid shit.
And then, of course, we have the people that don’t understand how electronics work. People that might drive by and say will reduce the amount of power these systems need. No, we won’t. We will reduce the amount of joules per operation, but will increase the number of operations drastically. Thereby, causing the power demand to increase. These numbers aren’t for me, they’re from actual industry insiders designing the far future generations of these products.
Nice attempt with a snark, you’ve proven. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Thank you for playing.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 months ago
As I said, yes, it uses electricity. You realize that there are ways to generate electricity that don't contribute to global warming? We're going to need to be switching to those methods anyway.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You seem utterly confused about the scale of the problem I described. Which isn’t entirely surprising. But I think you should go look up those sources. Because the output of a good sized nuclear station is about 1GW and we aren’t going to be building a nuclear station next to every single datacenter, now are we…