Did you see the stockarket?!

I only know how long bald eagles burn for.
How do I convert microwave hours to bald eagle burn time (in number of football games including all dead ball times and the halftime shows)?

Anyhow it would be running a microwave at 944 watt for an hour 😁

A truck and container with microwave beam like this.
https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/what-we-do/integrated-air-and-missile-defense/phaser-high-power-microwave

It's kind of hard for me to criticize cars when without one I wouldn't have a job, food, clothes, or really anything of the sort. Absolutely zero thought put into public transportation where I live, and the only bike lanes are about an hour bike ride away, with my job being the same distance. I'm just so tired boss.

People will start caring when the energy costs start to spike up. And with our little energy crisis looming; it is a good time to tell them how much of their electricity bill is subsidizing idiots like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei.

That's like 2-4 miles in my electric car, depending on outdoor temperature.

Ive seen more 700-1200 watt microwaves.

That's watts, not watt hours though, so it's like microwaving something for a little under an hour, which is unrelatable for most people.

But take your 300 watt gaming PC, play on it for 3 hours, suddenly you're at 900 watt hours and that's probably easier to picture for most people.

typically rated at 1200-1500 watts, sometimes more. Do they actually use that much? I

i'd say that if it says 1500 watts microwave, then that means that 1500 watts are delivered to your food. the microwave might consume more than that to account for losses.

The headline is a little stupid, but I’m assuming they took 800W or something similar as reference, otherwise they wouldn’t have ended up with over an hour.

Thank you for the conversion. We have a common unit for electrical energy already, and megajoules is not it. Trying to make it sound like a bigger number by changing the unit only muddies the waters and honestly makes me slightly less sympathetic to the issue.

Probably more like Spongebob with bouncing juggs videos

Mega, not Giga. It's more of medium sized Scott.

I'd much prefer to pay an artist to be using their PC for three hours than a corporation

Or ~100 hours of my laptop doing simple tasks.

Who the hell measures energy in joules?

i do

3 hours running completely flat out that is, which does happen with some games.

Even in those cases the gaming PC is producing roughly 2160x the amount of 'content' per unit of power. Though I guess some (not me) might argue that 5 seconds of AI generated cats fighting politicians has more 'worth' than some 5 second spans of gameplay.

I know right, it's electron volts or nothing, got to get back to basics

It's the international system unit of energy. So a lot of people.

The answer is in the article. Generation happens in gigantic data centers.

I find it unlikely that someone might be on Lemmy and not be aware about the basics of how ""AI"" actually works. But if you don't know, truly, the rundown is that all of these AI apps you use are just an interface where you can make a request to an ""AI"" do something. The ""AI"" is not running on your computer. It's like sending someone a message "hey, do this for me" and they will do it, and then saying you don't feel tired after doing it.

You can use a 15 year old pc or a top of the line gaming rig, then go to chatgpt website and request something, and the result would be the same, because it's not your machine doing the work.

Now, you can indeed run local AI on your machine, and if you try, you'd quickly see that you need beefy hardware and that your power use would spike like crazy to deliver results that are way slower than what you'd get from using an app/website. Which makes it obvious that they're using stronger (more) hardware than you are, and, therefore, using way more energy than you are.

what app are you using to generate video on your phone?

Your home pc also uses power.