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This is still pretty much bleeding edge technology, who's to say that the way we are currently doing thing is the most optional one? I'd rather they stop building these massive data centers and instead have their researchers focus on making these models run on consumer level hardware since throwing more and more compute power at the problem is not sustainable in the long run.
AI is, sure. But data centers have been around for literally decades. There’s nothing bleeding edge about it.
We know how to run data centers efficiently and less wastefully. It’s just more expensive so these fucks don’t want to do it.
They could power themselves entirely from solar and wind. They won’t. They could use closed loop cooling. They won’t. Because those options are more expensive and AI isn’t profitable yet (if ever).
They could do like what you’re saying and turn their models into locally run things on the end user device. They won’t because the only way they’re making money right now at all is on the mass data they collect from it.
They don’t want the risk of actually having to design, build and market products to consumers. They want to sell a fungible commodity that someone else makes a product with, they get to make money regardless of the success or failure of any given product.
Ultimately, they’re not really interested in any of this because they think that it’s a useful technology. They’re only interested because the business model of building a bunch of data centers and selling the computer is simple and low risk. They wouldn’t be putting any money in to it if not for that business model.
Most of the leadership at these companies made their names in the cloud services and web hosting boom. They’re sticking to what they know and what has been the only really big success for the industry in the past decade.
Well well, that reminds me of the US car industry where they thought bigger and bigger motors and cars were better. And American consumers still think so. When all else in the world knows that that’s not sustainable in the long run.