• danA
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    13 hours ago

    Running ai locally is the same energy as playing a 3d AAA game for the same time

    I wonder if they’re factoring in the energy usage to train the model. That’s what consumes most of the power.

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      7 hours ago

      I addressed that in my second paragraph.

      In another thread someone brought it up so I did some quick math to see if it was true:

      Gta5 cost $300 million. 4000 developers each with the latest GPU burning hundreds of watts per employee to create the assets. A rough estimate of 750watt pc, 4,000 developers, 8 hour a day, 300 days a year, 5 years = 36 giga watt-hours. That’s the energy to power 3.6 million homes for a year and I’m not even including the HVAC costs of the office space. For 1 game.

      AI training energy use is small in comparison. ChatGPT 4 cost $80m to train.