▲ 160 ▼ Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction (arstechnica.com) submitted 1 month ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 42 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (2 children) Wait, they can cover running costs now? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BenevolentOne@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago Running trained LLMs has, more or less, always been profitable. Inference can only run on one GPU efficiently, you know the size of the model, you know how long it takes... etc. Inference is approximately as expensive and environment destroying as Call of Duty, which don't get me wrong, is a waste of humanity for sure. Model training however... permalink fedilink source parent [–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago Yes, by shoveling investor cash into the generators powering their data centers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BenevolentOne@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago Running trained LLMs has, more or less, always been profitable. Inference can only run on one GPU efficiently, you know the size of the model, you know how long it takes... etc. Inference is approximately as expensive and environment destroying as Call of Duty, which don't get me wrong, is a waste of humanity for sure. Model training however... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago Yes, by shoveling investor cash into the generators powering their data centers. permalink fedilink source parent