• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      I was thinking in a different direction, that LLMs probably won’t be the pinnacle of AI, considering they aren’t really intelligent.

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      Assuming they would be enough food to maintain and fix that hardware, I’m not confident that we will have enough electricity to run LLM on massive scale

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      7 hours ago

      There are local LLMs, they’re just less powerful. Sometimes, they do useful things.

      The human brain uses around 20W of power. Current models are obviously using orders of magnitude more than that to get substantially worse results. I don’t think power usage and results are going to converge enough before the money people decide AI isn’t going to be profitable.

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        6 hours ago

        The power consumption of the brain doesn’t really indicate anything about what we can expend on LLMs… Our brains are not just biological implementation of the stuff done with LLMs.

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          It gives us an idea of what’s possible in a mechanical universe. It’s possible an artificial human level consciousness and intelligence will use less power than that, or maybe somewhat more, but it’s a baseline that we know exists.