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