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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

Found a thread doing numbers on Bluesky, about Google's AI summaries producing hot garbage (as usual):

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Also on the BlueSky-o-tubes today, I saw this from Ketan Joshi:

Used [hugging face]'s new tool to multiply 2 five digit numbers

Chatbot: wrong answer, 0.3 watthours

Calc: right answer, 0.00000011 watthours (2.5 million times less energy)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Julien Delavande , an engineer at AI research firm Hugging Face , has developed a tool that shows in real time the power consumption of the chatbot generating

gnnnnnngh

this shit pisses me off so bad

there's actually quantifiable shit you can use across vendors[0]. there's even some software[1] you can just slap in place and get some good free easy numbers with! these things are real! and are usable!

"measure the power consumption of the chatbot generating"

I'm sorry you fucking what? just how exactly are you getting wattage out of openai? are you lovingly coaxing the model to lie to you about total flops spent?

[0] - intel's def been better on this for a while but leaving that aside for now..

[1] - it's very open source! (when I last looked there was no continual in-process sampling so you got hella at-observation sampling problems; but, y'know, can be dealt with)

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