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‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought (www.thetimes.com)
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Writing a 100-word email using ChatGPT (GPT-4, latest model) consumes 1 x 500ml bottle of water It uses 140Wh of energy, enough for 7 full charges of an iPhone Pro Max

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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I’ve run an LLM on my desktop GPU and gotten decent results, albeit not nearly as good as what ChatGPT will get you.

Probably used less than 0.1Wh per response.

[–] Monsieurmouche@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Is this for inferencing only? Do you include training?

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Inference only. I’m looking into doing some fine tuning. Training from scratch is another story.