I think I just burned a kilowatt of energy thanks to this meme. 🤤
Have you know???.
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/c19893be-5044-4333-b621-c6c2abfbe87a.jpeg
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dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kilowatt… Hour…?
four@lemmy.zip 1 year 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 year ago
No wait time either. I did it while reading the sentence.
Mambert@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Some of us have aphantasia. AI fat perky tits is an aid to the disabled.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 year 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 year ago
The brain is like a muscle. You can train it, even your phantasia.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Do you have any idea what aphantasia is?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
This is the stupidest thing i ever read. “I’m blind” - “just train your eyes”
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 year 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 year ago
What is it you think the brain is doing when imagining?
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year ago
The inference takes <10 wH aka pretty much nothing.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I really enjoyed those fat perky tits thanks fossilesque
Jarix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The AI provides exponentially better results, if you are me
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I would have preferred a pic of the titties rather than a fibre optic brain.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year 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 year ago
10k * 12 < 2 billion
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 year ago
x0x7@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Save power: imagine less boobs.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Must be nice, phantasiacs.
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Watt isn not an energy unit.
flandish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it’s about energy transfer though. transfer of titty whats to watts to my mind.
HumanoidTyphoon@quokk.au 1 year ago
That’s just science
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Its continuous to keep the image active in your mind :)
bryndos@fedia.io 1 year 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'.
absentbird@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
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 1 year 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.
m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
Can confirm. Image generation with SDXL Turbo uses approx. 0.4 wH.
Steve@startrek.website 1 year ago
And the text dosnt specify a time interval, whats your point?
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
That watts by themselves mean nothing with regard to energy consumption.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 year 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 1 year ago
That’s, like, your opinion, man.
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt
No