NotASharkInAManSuit comments on Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That can be scaled horizontally and is just a matter of building more data centers.

That was a spectacular way of outlining the fact that you don’t at all understand the problems and limits with “AI” without having any awareness or understanding that you don’t at all understand the problems and limits with “AI.”

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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

Ok, explain to me why you can't scale out existing small and mid tier models horizontally? yes there are current resource limits on chips and energy but we know how to build those out and those types of limits are common to nearly every other industry, it's just that no other industry has generated such rapid demand/investment for infrastructure.

There's no O(n^2) problem on number of requests that would make handling large scale rollout impossible like the article is suggesting.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

If “AI” data centers are the only goal, sure, we could definitely bottleneck all technological progress into forcing a fractional level of slightly higher functionality to things that have already hit their potential at the cost of hobbling every other technology. Just fuck the environment, every level of consumer technology, limit the marketplace of ideas and materials to tech oligarchs, and cripple progress in literally any other field of technology, and it all just makes sense, right? Easy peasy.

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