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Re: GPU World

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Post by i5heu »

not2b wrote: post #10

Hopefully in this world, someone figures out how to deliver the performance equivalent of a B300 GPU for about 1/100th the power of a current B300 (which can be up to 1400 watts), or the world will bake.

8 biillion * 1400 watts = 11.2 terawatts

current global average electricity production = approximately 3.6 terawatts

But then again these systems do not use 1400 watts all the time. We would probably have much more then 11.2 terawatts demand if all humans turn on all their electrical consumers at the same time.

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Post by yitchelle »

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #15

I just finished reading Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky [1], a really timely novel that deals with lots of open ended questions of AI, robots, humanity, control, self determination, and so on. Really recommend it if you're into these kinds of things. > Premise Imagine that AI frontier progress stops as of 1 September 2026: AI becomes faster and cheaper, but it never becomes superhuman or improves considerably acr…

Yes, that book is a stark reminder (or prediction).

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Post by cheema33 »

mkagenius wrote: post #30

> LLM use is permitted, but discouraged; we remind participants that LLM use tends to reduce originality and writing quality, and the flaws are especially obvious when LLM outputs are read as a group---unskillful use of LLMs will reduce the odds of being the best entry. We request disclosure of AI use. Lot of submissions won't disclose it. Wouldn't it better to run your own checker instead of asking to disclose (to b…

> Wouldn't it better to run your own checker instead of asking to disclose

Do you know of a "checker" that can reliably detect AI-assisted writing with 100% accuracy? One does not exist.

> If you anyway intend to use the checker then kindly do no ask to disclose it, coz what's the point then.

You appear to think in absolute terms. I am guessing you are very young.

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Post by orlp »

If there was a continuous 500 watt GPU per person we'd increase energy consumption by more than double.

The continuous energy footprint per person globally averages to 356 watt currently.

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Post by blkhawk »

jdub wrote: post #6

LLM use is permitted, but discouraged; [...] We request disclosure of AI use. Heh. In the future I imagine, this would be embarrassingly redundant. "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

As far as I understand the backstory of the jihad this rule was caused not by machine minds being bad but (some) humans are very shitty.

Re: GPU World

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Post by calmoo »

cheema33 wrote: post #33
mkagenius wrote: post #30

> LLM use is permitted, but discouraged; we remind participants that LLM use tends to reduce originality and writing quality, and the flaws are especially obvious when LLM outputs are read as a group---unskillful use of LLMs will reduce the odds of being the best entry. We request disclosure of AI use. Lot of submissions won't disclose it. Wouldn't it better to run your own checker instead of asking to disclose (to b…

> Wouldn't it better to run your own checker instead of asking to disclose Do you know of a "checker" that can reliably detect AI-assisted writing with 100% accuracy? One does not exist. > If you anyway intend to use the checker then kindly do no ask to disclose it, coz what's the point then. You appear to think in absolute terms. I am guessing you are very young.

Pangram is very accurate

Re: GPU World

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Post by cheema33 »

rbanffy wrote: post #25
gwern wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Turned out: not much have changed. I think the world has changed a lot since the 1980s.

Most people still go to work every day, inequality still exists, as does famine, disease, wars… Our cars are cleaner, our phones are much better, our TVs much lighter and bigger.

> Most people still go to work every day..

And trees and mountains and animals still exist...

Rate of change, it appears, depends entirely on someone's perspective.

Re: GPU World

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Post by camillomiller »

I have been in tech for 20 years. i researched, covered, produced analysis, written extensively about innumerable trends. I have always done it with a grain of sane skepticism, but I have been wowed so many times. And yet, for the first time, I see something like this and I can’t utter anything but “oh my effing God”. It’s disturbing to me—to have this incredible technology available, the most incredible I’ve seen ever, and yet feel so empty about it. I just feel a fundamental repulsion. A generation ago the nerds were quirky cool outcasts with enough of a humanistic background, an understanding of the value of culture, or the humility of those who don’t know enough. This enabled them understand that tech is only part of a broader set of values, even though many of them were certainly technological maximalists. With AI another form of tech power has prevailed. It’s tech totalitarism, tech for tech’s sake. The drivers are of course the usual suspects: money and power. Yet there’s more. The resistance, even the most basic skeptical resistance, from the broader public isn’t there. With gen AI the nerd found the gold in the mine: the sudden realization that millions of people just couldn’t wait for the moment a machine could alleviate the curse of thinking. So here they go, merrily and joyously deferring their mind process to a mimicry engine, running back into the warm womb of Plato’s cave.

That said, interesting competition, big prizes, but the premises are pretty opinionated and quite prescriptive.

Re: GPU World

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Post by hhjinks »

orlp wrote: post #34

If there was a continuous 500 watt GPU per person we'd increase energy consumption by more than double. The continuous energy footprint per person globally averages to 356 watt currently.

500 watts continuous isn't realistic, unless you foresee a 24/7 digital shadow society where AIs interact continuously without user input.

Re: GPU World

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Post by camillomiller »

guax wrote: post #24
rixed wrote: post #17

Since the dawn of industry, people have been amazed by the new possibilities and how that would affect society once it's evenly distributed. Technical progress has been going on, percolating in every places and down to every person. Yet it's never been "evenly distributed". What would happen when every one would have access to Internet? How different will the world be when everyone carries a computer in their pocket?…

> not much have changed. So much have changed. The way we shop, travel, navigate a town, the way we socialize, receive information. My formative memory is during the transition from computers are a furniture piece and internet a thing you do to being on your pocket with constant high speed connection and the difference is incredible. I was also part of the people that thought everyone having access would turn out a l…

In the limited pockets of society you experience directly. How much has changed in the relationship between the West and Asia, the economic inequalities globally, or even in the West, etc... if you look at macro, everything moves according to laws that have little to do with the even distribution of technology and a lot to do with the decision makers that get to pick how that distribution takes place.
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