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[-] HeckGazer@programming.dev 50 points 6 months ago

Oh ez, that's only 17 orders of magnitude!

If we managed an optimistic pace of doubling every year that'd only take.... 40 years. The last few survivors on desert world can ask it if it was worth it

[-] Eiim 7 points 6 months ago

Rather amusing prediction that despite the obscene amount of resources being spent on AI compute already, it's apparently reasonable to expect to spend 1,000,000x that in the "near future".

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 46 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What these people don't realize is you're never gonna get AGI by just feeding a machine an infinite amount of raw data.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 46 points 6 months ago

You’re right. We should move onto feeding it orphans

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 26 points 6 months ago

Check out my new startup at modestproposal.ai

[-] Catoblepas 20 points 6 months ago

Oh, that’s why the orphan crushing machine exists. Completely realistic, actually.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

That reminds me, wonder if all the mods already got updated for the new version of rimworld.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 6 months ago

You sound very confident of that. Have you tried it?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 25 points 6 months ago

There might actually be nothing bad about the Torment Nexus, and the classic sci-fi novel “Don’t Create The Torment Nexus” was nonsense. We shouldn’t be making policy decisions based off of that.

wild

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 20 points 6 months ago

Yes, we know (there are papers about it) that for LLMs every increase of capabilities we need exponentially more data to train it. But don't worry, we only consumed half the worlds data to train LLMs, still a lot of places to go ;).

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 46 points 6 months ago

cool graph what's the x axis

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

Or: Let's not do that at a time where our energy consumption is literally killing the planet we live on.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 6 months ago

You don't understand, after we invent ~~god~~ AGI all our problems are solved. Now step into the computroniuminator, we need your atoms for more compute.

[-] someacnt_@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Yeah I don't see why people are so blind on this. Computation is energy-intensive, and we are yet to optimize it for the energy. Yet, all the hopes..

[-] DivineDev@kbin.run 12 points 6 months ago

We do optimize, it's just that when you decrease the energy for computations by half, you just do twice the computations to iterate faster instead of using half the energy.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 26 points 6 months ago

that looks like someone used win9x mspaint to make a flag, fucked it up, and then fucked it up even more on the saving throw

[-] Spider2013@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Any vexollologist around to confirm this?

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

vexologist here. This certainly is vexing.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago

Surprised this isn't a bluecheck.

But maybe it's not visible.

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