GooseFinger

@GooseFinger@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A setup with one monitor and a computer with a 5090 will draw about 1 kW under load. That’s 7 kWh per week if the average is 1 hour a day.

  So that’s about:

  • 233k Google searches
  • 20k GPT 4o queries
  • 175 GPT 5 queries
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to look up Chat GPT’s energy usage because you made me curious.

  Seems like Open AI claims Chat GPT 4o uses about 0.34 Wh per “query.” This is apparently consistent with third party estimates. The average Google search is about 0.03 Wh, for reference.

  Issue is, “query” isn’t defined, and it’s possible this figure is the energy consumption of the GPUs alone, omitting additional sources that comprise the full picture (energy conversion loss, cooling, infrastructure, etc.). It’s also unclear if this figure was obtained during model training, or during normal use.

  I also briefly saw that Chat GPT 5 uses between 18-40 Wh per query, so 100x more than GPT 4o. The OP used GPT 5.

  It sounds like the energy consumption is relatively bad no matter how it’s spun, but consider that it replaces other forms of compute and reduces workload for people, and the net energy tradeoff may not be that bad. Consider the task from the OP - how much longer/how many more people would it take to accomplish the same result that GPT 5 and the lone author accomplished? I bet the net energy difference isn’t that far from zero.

  Here’s the article I found: towardsdatascience.com/lets-analyze-openais-claim…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re just talking about the USA, then the ~200 million working people would get $150 each.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally )⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t be the only one who thinks “ROG Xbox Ally X” is a really stupid name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft could literally make “gargle the balls of Bill Gates” a login requirement and the masses would still use Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You severely overestimate how much the average person cares about their own privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading this literally made me feel a little queasy.