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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 80 points 2 months ago

I love that your brain runs on like 2 watts and a junior science scout chemistry set but it takes enough energy to run a city to make a language model spit out Reddit madlibs.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago

My brain runs on beer and sandwiches. Look at what tech bros need to mimic a fraction of my power

[-] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 months ago

Doing a quick search to find a source, couldn't find just brain but I found numbers from as low as 12W to as high as 100W for the entire nervous system, which is still super efficient compared to chat bots!

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

clearly we need to develop mitochondria for machines (mitochondria are the real hero behind eukaryotic efficiency)

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Stuff like this makes me wonder of it wouldn't be more efficient to have humans doing the work of "AI." Instead of having some kooky software, use a person to do the same thing with 2 watts of electricity.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Amazon's Mechanical Turk program is/was basically this. Farming out small editing or image recognition tasks to people in the global south who may or may not actually get paid a pittance for it.

[-] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

man i remember one time I basically got paid $20/hr to, based on a series of screenshots, make a title for a porn video. My god it was easy money, but the tasks ran out and never came back 😔

[-] antmzo220@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

it was easy money,

Sounds more like it was hard earned money to me.

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago

So you're saying we should harvest brains?

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 60 points 2 months ago

the urge to fedpost burns within me

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago

I'll do it for you - I hope Elon gets shot in the face

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 58 points 2 months ago

High voltage switchgear and transformers are always stored outside, have very very long lead times, and are easily damaged

the-more-you-know

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

35.0593253, -90.1563758

[-] SoJB@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel like people outside industry don’t appreciate this message as much as intended.

Industrial switchgears, often part of an electric apparatus that looks like a giant metal box, have lead times measured in years. The supply chain is completely fucked.

A literal CEO of a $20billion company couldn’t skip the line despite writing them a letter and begging for any price.

Companies are paying long haul truckers expedited rates to haul a 53 foot trailer with a switchgear inside, and the rest of the trailer completely empty. Just to get it 2-3 days sooner, after their 1 year wait. You cannot operate the facility without it.

It really is a huge shame when one of them gets damaged.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How would one safely damage high voltage electrical equipment, so we know how to prevent it?

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

a building crying out for a structure fire

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

knowing musk's style, the building is poorly-ventilated and primarily made of heavy heat-conducting metal and the escapes are in inaccessible places with impossibly-complicated and finnicky mechanisms to open them and every last person would end up perishing even though everyone was aware of the fire 45 minutes ahead of time.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

grok's woke

[-] Packet@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Power to homes Or power to white kinky AI photos

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago
[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Those prerendered backgrounds are so good

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

sicko-laser melon-musk's planet destroying million-monkey shitposting machine became a battleground...

metaphorically sicko-no

[-] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

we have enough chatbots, i don't think any of us need anymore of them that essentially do the same thing.

but then again, since when did cappies ever cared about actually improving and empowering human lives? 🤷‍♀️

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

But what if you had one that was intentionally and explicitly racist? my-hero

[-] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago

ewww

imagine making fashgpt

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