this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 80 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I love that your brain runs on like 2 watts and a junior science scout chemistry set but it takes enough energy to run a city to make a language model spit out Reddit madlibs.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My brain runs on beer and sandwiches. Look at what tech bros need to mimic a fraction of my power

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doing a quick search to find a source, couldn't find just brain but I found numbers from as low as 12W to as high as 100W for the entire nervous system, which is still super efficient compared to chat bots!

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

clearly we need to develop mitochondria for machines (mitochondria are the real hero behind eukaryotic efficiency)

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stuff like this makes me wonder of it wouldn't be more efficient to have humans doing the work of "AI." Instead of having some kooky software, use a person to do the same thing with 2 watts of electricity.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Amazon's Mechanical Turk program is/was basically this. Farming out small editing or image recognition tasks to people in the global south who may or may not actually get paid a pittance for it.

[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

man i remember one time I basically got paid $20/hr to, based on a series of screenshots, make a title for a porn video. My god it was easy money, but the tasks ran out and never came back 😔

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 9 months ago

So you're saying we should harvest brains?

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the urge to fedpost burns within me

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago

I'll do it for you - I hope Elon gets shot in the face

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago (3 children)

High voltage switchgear and transformers are always stored outside, have very very long lead times, and are easily damaged

the-more-you-know

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

35.0593253, -90.1563758

[–] SoJB@lemmy.ml 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I feel like people outside industry don’t appreciate this message as much as intended.

Industrial switchgears, often part of an electric apparatus that looks like a giant metal box, have lead times measured in years. The supply chain is completely fucked.

A literal CEO of a $20billion company couldn’t skip the line despite writing them a letter and begging for any price.

Companies are paying long haul truckers expedited rates to haul a 53 foot trailer with a switchgear inside, and the rest of the trailer completely empty. Just to get it 2-3 days sooner, after their 1 year wait. You cannot operate the facility without it.

It really is a huge shame when one of them gets damaged.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

How would one safely damage high voltage electrical equipment, so we know how to prevent it?

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

a building crying out for a structure fire

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

knowing musk's style, the building is poorly-ventilated and primarily made of heavy heat-conducting metal and the escapes are in inaccessible places with impossibly-complicated and finnicky mechanisms to open them and every last person would end up perishing even though everyone was aware of the fire 45 minutes ahead of time.

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

grok's woke

[–] Packet@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Power to homes Or power to white kinky AI photos

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

Those prerendered backgrounds are so good

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

sicko-laser melon-musk's planet destroying million-monkey shitposting machine became a battleground...

metaphorically sicko-no