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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by TnkBldr on Saturday December 05, 2020 @12:39AM (#25312086)
what’s the energy expense of training GPT-3? It should be very high. Eager to know the upside of such models. Environmental and social impacts of tech are becoming more direct and mainstream in today’s world!
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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by Baetylraig7 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @05:39AM (#25313452)
How exactly is the environmental impact of tech becoming more "direct and mainstream" [citation needed]?

Data centers around the world account only for a tiny fraction of electricity consumption or carbon emissions. Do you even account for the reduced car and air travel due to remote working and online shopping?

How are advanced few-shot learners like GPT-3 even remotely a problem, training less models is somehow worse? Do they even know what they are taking about?

Its all very confusing, but a lot of the work done by grievance studies becomes immediately easier to understand once you realize they are arguing in bad faith.

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