ChatGPT Is Consuming a Staggering Amount of Water
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So, 185,000 gallons of water were used to train GPT-3 which is apparently enough water to grow just 100 lbs of beef or 210 gallons of milk.
(420,000,000 lbs of beef are discarded in the US every year just due to discoloration)
That seems like a trivially good deal.
It actually seems like they mean a single flight as in, a single person's share of CO2 emissions from a flight, not like, the whole flight itself. Their reference for the emissions is this paper[2] which says BERT took 80 hours on 64 v100's and estimates that as 1.4k pounds of CO2 compared to Googling which suggests a single person's share of a flight from the US to the UK is around 1k kilograms of emissions (and about 10-20 dollars of carbon emissions offsets).
Some people just want to find things to complain about.
Deep learning on the other hand still has not found any better efficient alternatives or solutions to training, inferencing and fine-tuning their AI models like ChatGPT, or GPT-4 and caused excessive and unecessary emissions for decades. Now it is water that they are wasting.
Absolutely wasteful.
Ml has real benefit crypto doesn't.
'Bitcoin alone is estimated to consume 127 terawatt-hours (TWh) a year — more than many countries, including Norway. In the United States, cryptocurrency activity is estimated to emit from 25 to 50 million tons of CO2 each year, '
Deep Learning on the other hand has NO known efficient alternative methods in training / fine-tuning and inference of their AI models today. All these models are complete black-boxes that require costly fine-tuning, retraining and can hallucinate on the slightest bad input. Once that happens, go through the same wasteful steps again.
> Ml has real benefit crypto doesn't.
AI bullshit generators, disinformation accelerants and the proliferation of deep fakes sure is a better use case than transparent transactions being viewed by anyone on a public chain making fraud harder to commit and easier for the authorities to trace up. /s
AI grifters will do anything to drive and burn the whole world to the ground for their so-called utopian AGI end-game nonsense to pretend about having 'real benefit' to everyone.
What happens with the water next?
And how 185K gallons of water may be sufficient to produce 370 BMW cars?