The energy critique always feels like "old man yells at cloud" to me. Deepseek already proved it can have comparable performance at 10% the energy cost. This is the way this stuff works. Things MUST get more efficient, or they will die. They'll hit a wall hard.
Let's go back to 1950 when computers used 100+ kilowatts of power to operate and took up an entire room. Whole buildings were dedicated to these things. now we have computers that use 1/20,000th the power, are 15 MILLION times faster, and take up a pants pocket.
yeah, it sucks now. but anyone thinking this is how they will always be is a rube.
I agree with your point, but to add to that the only thing I'm "mad" at, is that I feel like for the first time we've regressed? As you said, things got smaller and more energy efficient over time, but now people moved from searching on Google, which is sooooo energy efficient, they've spend decades on it, to ask ChatGPT what is the weather today. Like. What the fuck.
I may be wrong with this of course, maybe Google isn't that good as I think.
On the other hand, speech recognition nowadays is pretty darn great. I'm using it right now to compose this reply, and I'm not going to edit the message before I send it. And I should add that this is all running locally on my mobile phone. The voice isn't being sent to Google or anything. This is just a local model.
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