Watt isn not an energy unit.
Have you know???.
Submitted 1 day ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Engywuck@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
flandish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
it’s about energy transfer though. transfer of titty whats to watts to my mind.
HumanoidTyphoon@quokk.au 1 day ago
That’s just science
absentbird@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 hours 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.
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 1 day 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.
m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
Can confirm. Image generation with SDXL Turbo uses approx. 0.4 wH.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Its continuous to keep the image active in your mind :)
bryndos@fedia.io 1 day 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'.
Steve@startrek.website 1 day ago
And the text dosnt specify a time interval, whats your point?
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That watts by themselves mean nothing with regard to energy consumption.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 day 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”
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think I just burned a kilowatt of energy thanks to this meme. 🤤
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Kilowatt… Hour…?
four@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
No, they just imagined ~800 tits. Maybe even at once.
The image in the post also uses watts where watt-hours might be more applicable, so we are already more in the realm of memes than science
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
No wait time either. I did it while reading the sentence.
Mambert@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Some of us have aphantasia. AI fat perky tits is an aid to the disabled.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
BI (biological intelligence) has luckily devised ways to get photographic replications of real fat perky tits through transformations of electromagnetic waves right to your retinas and thus into your brain. And it still takes less energy than AI.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The brain is like a muscle. You can train it, even your phantasia.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Do you have any idea what aphantasia is?
m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
This is the stupidest thing i ever read. “I’m blind” - “just train your eyes”
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
An LLM isn't imagining anything, it's sorting through the enormous collection of "imaginations" put out by humans to find the best match for "your" imagination. And the power used is in the training, not in each generation. Lastly, the training results in much more than just that one image you can't stop thinking about, and you'd find the best ones if you could prompt better with your little brain.
HumanoidTyphoon@quokk.au 1 day ago
What is it you think the brain is doing when imagining?
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Actually imagining. The fact that we have created previously unheard of tools such as the hammer, the wrench, the automobile and the profylactic condom is ample evidence that we can actually innovate, somethibg that artificial “intelligence” is ibcapable 9f doing by its very design.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
That is what AI scientists have been pursuing the entire time (well, before they got sucked up by capitalistic goals).
m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
The haters are mad that humans are not the super special ones anymore. They can’t comprehend that machines can now write/make pictures too, and that writing/making pictures never was a super magical human only thing. Now they want to destroy the new technology so they can go back to “we’re super special because we can write” land. But they can’t so they cope with made up bullshit.
NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The training is a huge power sink, but so is inference (I.e. generating the images). You are absolutely spinning up a bunch of silicon that’s sucking back hundreds of watts with each image that’s output, on top of the impacts of training the model.
m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
The inference takes <10 wH aka pretty much nothing.
DoctorPress@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
“prompt better” in the context: “Make no mistakes” a truly engineering power!
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I really enjoyed those fat perky tits thanks fossilesque
x0x7@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Don’t tell them that. They’ll kidnap us an wire us into a human AI net all to generate pictures of boobs at lower cost.
Jarix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The AI provides exponentially better results, if you are me
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I would have preferred a pic of the titties rather than a fibre optic brain.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How much does it cost if οne person imagines it, generates an image, shares that, and 10k people see the image, and avoid imagining it?
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
10k * 12 < 2 billion
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Save power: imagine less boobs.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Must be nice, phantasiacs.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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