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https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php

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[–] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Now guess how much power it took for each one of those wrong answers.

The upper limit for AI right now has nothing to do with the coding or with the companies programming it. The upper limit is dictated by the amount of power it takes to generate even simple answers (and it doesn't take any less power to generate wrong answers).

Training a large language model like GPT-3, for example, is estimated to use just under 1,300 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity; about as much power as consumed annually by 130 US homes. To put that in context, streaming an hour of Netflix requires around 0.8 kWh (0.0008 MWh) of electricity. That means you’d have to watch 1,625,000 hours to consume the same amount of power it takes to train GPT-3.

https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption

If the AI wars between powerful billionaire factions in the United States continues, get ready for rolling blackouts.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

Time for nuclear to make a comeback.

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