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⚡ Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage
｢ As detailed in a new paper, researchers from the open-source AI platform Hugging Face found that the energy demands of text-to-video generators quadruple when the length of a generated video doubles — indicating that the power required for increasingly sophisticated generations doesn’t scale linearly ｣
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-power-usage-text-to-video-generator
@jbz Well, the headline is worst clickbait: we should not forget that other uses of #AI may show also nonlinear increases and the increase of energy use in AI #datacenters is already climate-killing high. (And that's beside the waste of drinking water.)
@jbz And wtf is 'text to video', anyway? Maybe I don't really want to know...
Since the videos need to maintain correlation in time, that's neither a shocking, nor even a surprising result. Every mathematician or computer scientist worth their salt could have predicted that. Well, it's likely they did, but were drowned out by the hype.
@jbz They are called "Hugging Face" for real? Like, not a The Onion headline - they actually named their company as an allusion to one of H.R. Gieger's abominations?
@jbz no shit sherlock. many computing tasks show nonlinear increases in resource use.
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