Comment by StarterPro
8 hours ago
There is no need for this many data centers. LLMs are a scourge on humanity as they are currently implemented, and what will they do when these are no longer needed?
I can't wait until OpenAI, NVIDIA and Microsoft all go belly up.
A scourge? I get some kind of valuable use from it almost every day. This criticism sounds completely out of touch.
Commensurate to the actual cost?
Certainly commensurate to the price. It's up to the companies to bring the cost under the price.
AFAICT, fears of the marginal costs of LLM inference being high are dramatically overblown. All the "water" concerns are outlandish, for one—a day of moderately heavy LLM usage consumes on the order of one glass of water, compared to a baseline consumption of 1000 glasses/day for a modern human. And the water usage of a data center is approximately the same as agriculture per acre.
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Compared to the fair market cost of human labor? It might be thousands of times more efficient.
You are capable of considering effects of systems outside of your immediate, moment-to-moment needs?
are _you_ capable of consdering the advantages that AI can bring instead of simply focusing on the easy parts like pollution and energy?
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With no disrespect to GorbachevyChase, I am going to say that this lack of understanding externalities is a trait of sociopathy.
> as they are currently implemented
As they are currently implemented, I get daily value from them.
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It’s no more useful than when google and stack overflow was at its peak! All I want is to find docs. The coding performance is lackluster, oversold and under delivered. Everything else gen AI is dystopian.
Why not debate me rather than downvotes? Eh hallucinations break my workflow and end up costing me more time debugging then it’s worth.
Do you have children? Post some pictures of them so Grok can show us what they look like unclothed and covered in "yogurt".
It's possible to imagine LLMs implemented responsibly, but our ruling class has decided against that.
Let's avoid falling into the trap of assuming the worst of people when replying to comments.
I can't wait for cheap RAM and SSDs to flood the market...
> what will they do when these are no longer needed?
Bitcoin—>Altcoin—>NFTs—>StableCoin—>AI—>They'll just invent something new to over-hype and spend billions on.
It won't end until we reach the Shoe Event Horizon.
I'm not sure it's that linear
https://www.thenerdreich.com/network-state-comes-for-venezue...
The compute will find a use case; if the AI bubble bursts I'm sure all the excess capacity will be rerouted to crypto again. But also, there's still plenty of usage in chatbots or image / video generation, I'm not convinced that will just stop.