General question: is this the next way we'll manage to destroy the planet?
Imagine in the near future that having a slightly better, slightly more up to date LLM is a major competitive advantage. Whether that is between companies or nation-states doesn't really matter. So now all of those recently-idled GPUs will be put to use training and re-training ever bigger and more current models, once again sucking down electricity with no limit.
We're not there yet; there are too many ways to improve things without burning a country's worth of electricity re-training. But is it coming?
Imagine in the near future that having a slightly better, slightly more up to date LLM is a major competitive advantage. Whether that is between companies or nation-states doesn't really matter. So now all of those recently-idled GPUs will be put to use training and re-training ever bigger and more current models, once again sucking down electricity with no limit.
We're not there yet; there are too many ways to improve things without burning a country's worth of electricity re-training. But is it coming?