AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab

Re:AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab by sanxiyn on Sunday December 08, 2019 @11:12PM (#21740353)

$10k/day is just for file transfer, not for GPU.

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Re:AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab by klingonopera on Sunday December 08, 2019 @11:24PM (#21740391)

Ok, ok, let me see if I now got this right: The AI needs a VM (because users rarely have 12GB GPUs at home), and this VM then downloads about 6GB from GitHub each time a user opens up a new session instead of sourcing that from a locally cached copy?

EDIT: Almost, the VM runs on Colab, which only works with Google, and Google's charging for the upload to Colab? ...more like collaborator, amirite? dodges rotten eggs

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Re:AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab by andrekorol on Sunday December 08, 2019 @11:45PM (#21740457)

Yeah, now you almost got it right! Colab is a service provided by Google.

The funny thing is the high egress fees Google charges for transferring data between two of its services (GCS -> Colab).

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Re:AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab by klingonopera on Monday December 09, 2019 @12:03AM (#21740513)

Funny, cheap and cheerful, little hidden costs in the fine-print. Oh my Google, how could we ever be mad at you? opens a can of laughter

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