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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (62 children)

I know she's exaggerating but this post yet again underscores how nobody understands that it is training AI which is computationally expensive. Deployment of an AI model is a comparable power draw to running a high-end videogame. How can people hope to fight back against things they don't understand?

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (29 children)

It's closer to running 8 high-end video games at once. Sure, from a scale perspective it's further removed from training, but it's still fairly expensive.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

really depends. You can locally host an LLM on a typical gaming computer.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

True, and that's how everyone who is able should use AI, but OpenAI's models are in the trillion parameter range. That's 2-3 orders of magnitude more than what you can reasonably run yourself

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is still orders of magnitude less than what it takes to run an EV, which are an eco-friendly form of carbrained transportation. Especially if you live in an area where the power source is renewable. On that note, it looks to me like AI is finally going to be the impetus to get the U.S. to invest in and switch to nuclear power -- isn't that altogether a good thing for the environment?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

lol just purely wrong on that one. Hilarious.

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