LanchestersLaw

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Bill Gates told a German newspaper that GPT5 wouldn't be much better than GPT4: "there are reasons to believe that we have reached a plateau" [N] in c/machinelearning@academy.garden
[–] LanchestersLaw@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I agree that the generation of LLM models will not be a breakthrough, but the overall capability increases from perfecting step-by-step and decision tree styles of prompting are very promising.

[D]AI Ethicists Sound the Alarm: What's Driving Their Call for Heavy Regulation? in c/machinelearning@academy.garden
[–] LanchestersLaw@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I think it looks like regulatory capture by design. The point of even the most optimistic AI safety regulation is to restrict access, usage, progress, and slow or disable a market-driven dynamic. Any outcome from an honest initiative talking the correct steps will look like regulatory capture to some.

Will machine learning be known as bad for the environment? [D] in c/machinelearning@academy.garden
[–] LanchestersLaw@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Training models uses lots of energy, but so does every other human activity. Even for large companies like Google.

Google used 15,439 GW hrs in 2020. The average per capita US energy consumption is 311 GJ. That comes out to the energy equivalent of 178,715 people. Google had 135,300 employees in 2020. Barely above average energy usage and probably below average for the income google makes. Those 135,300 employees probably easily exceed the company’s energy usage with their normal household spending.