| CaptainExplosion said: You expected AI to not give you a pro-AI answer, really? What can we do so that AI uses less energy, less water, less RAM, and take up way less space? |
Well, Moore's Law continues, and there are continued improvements in power efficiency and cost efficiency of chips, albeit at rates somewhat slower than historically.
The thing is, Jevon's paradox and all. If a fairy suddenly made all GPUs 1,000x more efficient, you wouldn't get 100x less power consumption, you'd just get plans for >1,000x more powerful data centers.
A reminder, though, that electricity consumption isn't an inherently bad thing (renewables account for almost 80% of electricity generation increases nowadays), and it's the reason we're able to live comfortable lives in the first place:
I imagine the R2 would be even higher without the offshoring of low-end manufacturing to developing economies in the past few decades, which contributed to flatline electricity consumption for a few decades in developed economies.
