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The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley | Rest of World (restofworld.org)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Regarding AI, some simple examples of likely computing expense:

  • performing 1 + 1 in assembly language: 1 CPU cycle
  • performing 1 + 1 in a high level interpreted language: maybe 10 CPU cycles
  • performing 1 + 1 using an LLM: millions of CPU cycles
  • asking "why was the rabbit an animal after 1 + 1": probably priceless, maybe a billion cycles
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be honest we lost that war when JavaScript dominated everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

PHP would like a word.

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