*|FNAME|* 327.46ppm 🌎 🇨🇦 on Nostr: 🎯 “Even more important, these models are expensive to run. Even if a bankrupt AI ...
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“Even more important, these models are expensive to run. Even if a bankrupt AI company’s model and servers could be acquired for pennies on the dollar, even if the new owners could be shorn of any overhanging legal liability from looming copyright cases, even if the eye-watering salaries commanded by AI engineers collapsed, the electricity bill for each query – to power the servers and their chillers – would still make running these giant models very expensive.”
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
“Even more important, these models are expensive to run. Even if a bankrupt AI company’s model and servers could be acquired for pennies on the dollar, even if the new owners could be shorn of any overhanging legal liability from looming copyright cases, even if the eye-watering salaries commanded by AI engineers collapsed, the electricity bill for each query – to power the servers and their chillers – would still make running these giant models very expensive.”
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/