AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas.

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    6 months ago

    The current LLM’S kinda suck, but companies have fired huge swaths of their staff and plan in putting LLMs in their place. Either those companies hire back all those workers, or they get the programs to not suck. And making LLMs actually capable of working unsupervised will take more and more energy.

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      6 months ago

      My take is that LLMs are absolutely incredible… for personal use and hobby projects. I can’t think of a single task I would trust an LLM to perform entirely unsupervised in a business context.

      Of course, that’s just where LLMs are at today, though. They’ll improve.

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      6 months ago

      LLM’s will probably improve at an exponential level - similar to how cpu’s did in the 80s/90s. in ~10 generations the LLMs will likely be very useful

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      Sure, but it’s simply not physically possible for AI to be consuming that much power. Not enough computers exist, and not enough ability to manufacture new ones fast enough. There hasn’t been a giant surge of new power plants built in just the past few years, so if something was suddenly drawing an India’s worth of power then somewhere an India’s worth of consumers just went dark.

      This just isn’t plausible.