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Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

I'm not discounting it. Improving productivity for office workers by 1% across the world is a massive amount

The power used to train the AI is alot, but after that using the AI uses a lot less electricity, if an AI spikes my gpu by 10 seconds to type something that would have taken me 30 minutes, I've saved on electricity:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06219