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Re:The Generative AI Con by apstls on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:00AM (#43090253)
I think these types of arguments need to at the very least acknowledge the distribution of cost between training and inference.
Re:The Generative AI Con by agentultra on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:30AM (#43090630)
Perhaps, and the externalities often unaccounted for or hand-waved away.

Even the US Government is getting involved in subsidizing these companies and all of the infrastructure and resources needed to keep it expanding. We can look forward to even more methane power plants, more drilling, more fracking, more noisy data-centres sucking up fresh water from local reserves and increased damage to the environment that will come out of the pocket books of... ?

Update: And for what? "Deep Research"? Apparently it's not that great or world-changing for the costs involved. It seems that the author is tired of the yearly promise that everything is just a year or two away as long as we keep shovelling more money and resources into the furnace.