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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

don't worry about AI gobbling up energy, tech will adapt

Sure there's a lot of promising research into using less power to run the same models, but that just means that the savings will be used on even bigger models.

AI will identify ways

Oh. Well. LMAO it is then.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

that just means that the savings will be used on even bigger models.

There's a name for that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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