Posted by crorella 12 hours ago
Laptops use very minimal power - you don't need to worry about them. If they didn't their battery life would suck.
Edit: for context, just Steam alone has ~200million monthly active users.
I'd be curious as to how much of internet infrastructure is dedicated to gaming though.
How many DCs are devoted solely to gaming?
Today physical discs are rapidly becoming a niche that newer consoles just won't have. PC games are almost never sold physically anymore.
Yes but it adds up when you consider that just on Steam alone there are 200 million monthly active users.
An entire planet. Just Steam alone has one or two hundres million monthly active users.
All of gaming is in the 300B USD range while just the CapEx of hyper scalars is already over 200B.
Yeah? Show me the big movements against computer gaming.
The differences with AI are: 1) we are starting off (mid 2020s) from a baseline point of already being in a hopelessly shitty situation, past the 1.5C warming target; and 2) Electronics, chips, data centers etc were already a thing for a long time, but industry took _decades_ to ramp up production to pre-AI levels, and these things are used everywhere for a huge number of things. Now we're consuming electronics/data centers/water/power at an unheard-of rate, and for a single purpose (AI) with questionable benefits, besides the private interests of a handful of people.
Even then people do care about the power consumption of non-AI things. Look at the energy label on your TV or tumble drier for example.
But this is not that, the same gpus you play games with are used to run llms. How was energy consumation by gpu not a topic before llms?
> I don't think video games consume nearly as much power. A PS5's power consumption is apparently around 200W. That's not enough to run even one GPU, let alone the armada it presumably takes to run Astra.
Just Steam has 200 million monthly active users. Add Steam, PS, Xbox, and whole other devices having gpus and I'm pretty sure you at least 10x the energy consumption of all ai companies.
I dunno what you're not getting but a GPU to run games is like 200-500W. A GPU cluster to run Astra is probably more like 10kW.
Also gamers tend not to spin up dozens of other machines to also game for them.
Huge misstep releasing it.
I can handle issues much better if they are predictable even if the model makes mistakes — much more frustrating when the model is erratic
I find codex wanders off road more often and fails to see the “bigger picture” (as much as LLMs can see the bigger picture at least)
And tbh when it was first released Astral felt even worse
I’m being forced to use it right now and at the end of the day I’m making do so it’s fine, but Claude makes for a smoother experience