curl-6 said:
haxxiy said:
It's amusing that people keep repeating this since they have no idea how much water is used by typical agricultural and industrial processes. A large datacenter consumes roughly as much water as the beef used by six burger joints, and golf courses in the US consume around 25x more of it than all datacenters combined. Not to mention the runoff from a datacenter is warmer water... the runoff from a blue jeans factory will literally kill you. As for errors, retrieval-augmented generation has by large reduced the rate of hallucinations in the past year or so. Even for offline mode, the hallucination rate changes considerably across models. They can actually learn to distinguish between what is encoded in their weights and what is not, though no one besides maybe Anthropic is paying much mind to solving it in reinforcement learning. |
Golf courses or factories being bad for the environment too doesn't change the fact that AI also is. As someone who lives in the suburbs of a major city, I'm already inhaling car smog a lot of the time, but that doesn't mean that I should just say "fuck it" and become a pack a day smoker as well cos "I'm already damaging my lungs". |
And the result of that AI center is someone on these forums with an awful picture of Link cumming out of his baseball hat. Why are we paying for this shit? I don't think a Golf Course is making tech impossibly expensive. Because football sized buildings are sure worth it for a 5 second video of trump taking a shit on protestors.
