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fortylast Thursday at 11:05 PM1 replyview on HN

What if we run out of GPU? Out of RAM? Out of electricity?

AWS is already raising GPU prices, that never happened before. What if there is war in Taiwan? What if we want to get serious about climate change and start saving energy for vital things ?

My guess is that, while they can do some cool stuff, we cannot afford LLMs in the long run.


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jiggawattslast Friday at 2:57 AM

> What if we run out of GPU?

These are not finite resources being mined from an ancient alien temple.

We can make new ones, better ones, and the main ingredients are sand and plastic. We're not going to run out of either any time soon.

Electricity constraints are a big problem in the near-term, but may sort themselves out in the long-term.

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