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LiquorVicar

@LiquorVicar@mastodon.social

I don't know what I'm talking about.

If you find me, I may well be ranting about software development, sports-ball (ITFC, cricket, cycling, "Go Bears!" etc). I'm probably harmless but you might want to walk away slowly backwards just in case.

November 11, 2017

"Doing a calculation using a chatbot, one of the most-used functions, is several million times more energy intensive than using a calculator and significantly more likely to be flat-out wrong. Doing it using ‘reasoning’ models is more likely to be accurate, but tens of millions of times more energy intensive. It’s the single worst form of tech-executive-anxiety-induced digital bloat that has ever occurred."

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