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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

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[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

It's not the query that burns through electricity like crazy, it's training the models.

You can run a query yourself at home with a desktop computer, as long as it has enough RAM and compute cells to support the model you're using (think a few high-end GPUs).

Training a model requires a huge pile of computer power though, and the AI companies are constantly scraping the internet to ~~steal~~find more training material