The human brain is powered by calories. Food is a renewable energy source.
But we decided they weren’t efficient enough and now we want to replace them with LLMs, powered by orders of magnitude more electricity than the workstations the humans would use.
And no one stopped to think “Hey maybe adding significantly more power usage isn’t the best idea right now.”
This has nothing to do with llms. We’ve needed a drastic improvement to energy production for ages now, but infrastructure budgets never sound cool enough to actually get an increase, so here we are.
No duh.
The human brain is powered by calories. Food is a renewable energy source.
But we decided they weren’t efficient enough and now we want to replace them with LLMs, powered by orders of magnitude more electricity than the workstations the humans would use.
And no one stopped to think “Hey maybe adding significantly more power usage isn’t the best idea right now.”
Maybe, hear me out, we could hook up human brains to power the AI? Maybe in some sort of stasis pod?
What a great an unique plot idea for a book or a movie!
The same argument could be made about the body and farm equipment.
Progress is not the enemy, our shit leaders not investing properly in our energy production is.
This has nothing to do with llms. We’ve needed a drastic improvement to energy production for ages now, but infrastructure budgets never sound cool enough to actually get an increase, so here we are.