Facebook disclose the carbon footprint of their new LLaMA models

Who cares? Expected lifetime CO2 for an F150 is 100 tons. So, equivalent to 10 more pickup trucks. Seems like the progress is worth the cost.

One day, it would be nice to have a metric of how many tons of CO2 is a year of life less for one specific human being (being killed by climate change), or one net-year over multiple humans lost with indirect deadly effects would probably be more useful.

800 USD is enough to save a life, but how many people does one pickup truck kill?

Last time I checked for european SUVs, my in the ballpark guesstimate after doing the number crunching was 0.001 to 0.01; So about as many as car traffic probably is creating by means of non-CO2 based costs and damages anyway.

The later number takes into account having subsidies either directly as well as for infrastructure paid for, and accidents happen to the life and health of motorized road, together with more direct pollution and effects of land use in mostly our cities.

I believe this is about the same amount of energy used to run Bitcoin for a mere half hour (as of August 2021).

I really hope they find a less compute-intensive way to do these.