Its continuous to keep the image active in your mind :)
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Engywuck@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Watt isn not an energy unit.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
bryndos@fedia.io 5 months ago
That'd need watt hours though. Meme is only showing the instantaneous power required to conjure the image for an infinitesimal amount of time - you cant do any useful 'work' with it unless the time is accounted for.
Watt seconds maybe.What makes me skeptikal of this data though is that the correct sciencing term for a billion watts is the well established 'jiggawatt'. In this context I'd have also accepted the Canadian spelling 'jigglewatt'.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Yeah no. Imagine it like a computer and screen. To render an image it will momentarily consume a bit more power, but as soon as it has been rendered it will still continuosily consume x Watt to keep running and displaying the picture. For continuous operation of something with no specified time, Watt is the correct unit.
BussyGyatt@feddit.org 5 months ago
not “infinitesimal time.” continuously. think of it like this: to continuously think up perky tits, it takes a human mind 12 watts- brain is a 12 watt computer. time interval is proportional to the number of titty images/length of titty video. and im psure an individual instance of titty ai doesn’t come out to 2.7 jigglewatts- im like 80% sure i can get a titty generator to run on my lil 50 watt phone. not testing that assumption today tho.
absentbird@lemmy.world 5 months ago
People say this, but almost every time the time interval is left off it’s hours.
Either way, the numbers in this meme are clearly made up. Most image generation uses fewer than 10 watt hours.
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
People say this, but almost every time the time interval is left off it’s hours.
This is new for me. Must be some engineering thing. I’m a physicist and and I feel guilty if I leave out some units just because, lol.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Maybe it’s comparing the total power rating of the brain to a data center dedicated to AI
Which is also a stupid comparison because the data cenrer will be processing a lot of parallel requests. That’s why you want the unit to be energy rather than power in this case
Or maybe it’s all made up.
absentbird@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think it’s all made up. The most power hungry data center in the world consumes 150MW of power, and that’s from a massive 11 million square foot facility in China that’s significantly larger than any other data center.
m532@lemmygrad.ml 5 months ago
Can confirm. Image generation with SDXL Turbo uses approx. 0.4 wH.
Steve@startrek.website 5 months ago
And the text dosnt specify a time interval, whats your point?
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That watts by themselves mean nothing with regard to energy consumption.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Also, it literally is an energy unit used in measurements. It’s meant as a continious power. Ie. Your active imagination consumes around 12 watts of power, not “rendering one image”
MrSmith@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s, like, your opinion, man.
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
MrSmith@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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flandish@lemmy.world 5 months ago
it’s about energy transfer though. transfer of titty whats to watts to my mind.
HumanoidTyphoon@quokk.au 5 months ago
That’s just science