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[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

Someone told me it’s like 97% more energy efficient or that it consumes 97% less energy. Is that true

Edit: this comment has a summary saying that the model has 93% compression ratios so maybe that’s there efficiency number canes from

[–] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

so you are saying ai is destroying the planet for nothing?!

[–] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Literally the same business model as Bitcoin.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Funny how it also caused a massive demand spike for gpus

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

why's that funny? it's because of what GPUs do.. namely massively parallel computations

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We also got news from Trump of a huge tariff to all chips manufactured outside the US, so that may be panic buying as well.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

ah! i hadn't heard of that

[–] Pastaguini@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

Not for nothing - for the investment portfolio of energy investors. You know, the highest priority of all.

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