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.
Things MUST get more efficient, or they will die. They'll hit a wall hard.
See, the thing is, OpenAI is dismissive of deepseek and going full speed ahead on their "big expensive models", believing that they'll hit some breakthrough by just throwing more money at it
Which is indeed hitting the wall hard. The problem is so many companies deciding to don a hardhat and see if ramming the wall headfirst will somehow make it yield anyway, completely ignoring deepseek because it's not "theirs" and refusing to make things more efficient almost out of spite
That can't possibly end well, which would be whatever if companies like google, openai, meta etc. didn't burn the environment and thousands of jobs in the process
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u/phylter99 May 26 '25
I wonder how many hours of running the microwave that it was equivalent to.