In-reply-to » After seeing some ChatGPT interactions I believe all doomsday AI scenarios are stupid and I also believe it's impossible for an intelligent creature to create a creature more intelligent than itself.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Oh I don’t accept the marketing hype at all. The thing that I always fall back on is the insane amount of power that it takes to runs these fuckings tupid ass models that are nothing more than (okay admittedly a bit fancier than the ones a few decades ago, but mostly based on the same mechanics) “algorithms” that take data in and spit data out. The shocking part for me is comparing the insane power and energy requirements of even the largest “AI” models in the world and comparing that with the energy/power requirements of running (for example) the brain of a rat.

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