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[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 63 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The first statement is not even wholly true. While training does take more, executing the model (called "inference") takes much, much more power than non-AI search algorithms, or really any traditional computational algorithm besides bogosort.

Big Tech weren't doing the best they possibly could transitioning to green energy, but they were making substantial progress before LLMs exploded on the scene because the value proposition was there: traditional algorithms were efficient enough that the PR gain from doing the green energy transition offset the cost.

Now Big Tech have for some reason decided that LLMs represent the biggest game of gambling ever. The first to find the breakthrough to AGI will win it all and completely take over all IT markets, so they need to consume as much as they can get away with to maximize the probability that that breakthrough happens by their engineers.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I ran some image generators on my RTX2070, and it took a solid minute at full power to do it. Sure, it's not a crazy amount, but it's not like it's running on your iPhone.

[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 3 days ago

you can get a very small generator running on a modern phone if you want a grainy 400x400 piece of anime trash

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