• dronarnia@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    training a top-level model takes harvesting petabytes / exabytes of revelant data and then months of continuous 100% power on a large server farm costing many millions of dollars.

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      55 minutes ago

      That was my understanding. So how do local models work? (Been fucking with computers since the 80s, AI is all new to me.)

      • smeenz@lemmy.nz
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        37 minutes ago

        They’re the output of all that data centre processing. The model is fixed at that point and can’t “learn” anything more, so the pressure is always on to release a newer model that resulted from more data with better algorithms, but still small enough t9 be able to run on a consumer grade GPU