@danilo re: your energy critique, I was eagerly reading...

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@danilo re: your energy critique, I was eagerly reading to see if you had gotten better stats than I had previously found, but I didn't see any. I don't know if it's worth editing to update, but I was saying exactly this last month: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/111251549055579334

Like 17 Nov 2023 at 6:38 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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Danilo, from the Gerentate

@glyph that's super interesting context! four fucking orders of magnitude…

yeah, I'll drop a link in, do you have a citation on the GPT-3 training energy costs?

17 Nov 2023 at 6:41 | Open on hachyderm.io

Glyph

@danilo https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/07/27/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use/#:~:text=Overall%2C%20this%20can%20lead%20to,of%20over%201%2C000%20U.S.%20households.

17 Nov 2023 at 6:42 | Open on mastodon.social

Glyph

@danilo This is a better source than the one I had at the time, so maybe only 3 orders of magnitude :). And, crucially, this one talks about *operating*, which I didn't include previously.

17 Nov 2023 at 6:44 | Open on mastodon.social

Glyph

@danilo (But I was being perhaps overgenerous to Bitcoin; 100TWh was more of a 2021 number, it's gone up more than 25% since: https://rmi.org/cryptocurrencys-energy-consumption-problem/#:~:text=Cryptocurrency%20has%20an%20energy%20consumption,than%20many%20countries%2C%20including%20Norway.)

17 Nov 2023 at 6:45 | Open on mastodon.social

Danilo, from the Gerentate

@glyph yeah, that's a pretty wild gulf right there

and again, the incentive is to drive down consumption and improve efficiency, so the long term trend looks like computing's performance per watt trend, not bitcoin’s tire fire

17 Nov 2023 at 6:53 | Open on hachyderm.io

Danilo, from the Gerentate

@glyph that's great, very helpful, publishing now

17 Nov 2023 at 6:45 | Open on hachyderm.io

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