• someacnt_@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Well, lots of people blinded by hype here… Obv it is not simply statistical machine, but imo it is something worse. Some approximation machinery that happen to work, but gobbles up energy in cost. Something only possible becauss we are not charging companies enough electricity costs, smh.

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      4 months ago

      We’re in the “computers take up entire rooms in a university to do basic calculations” stage of modern AI development. It will improve but only if we let them develop.

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        4 months ago

        Moore’s law died a long time ago, and AI models aren’t getting any more power efficient from what I can tell.

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          4 months ago

          Then you haven’t been paying attention. There’s been huge strides in the field of small open language models which can do inference with low enough power consumption to run locally on a phone.

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      4 months ago

      Honestly if this massive energy need for AI will help accelerate modular/smaller nuclear reactors 'm all for it. With some of these insane data centers companies want to build each one will need their own power plants.

      I’ve seen tons of articles on small/modular reactor companies but never seen any make it to the real world yet.