• youmaynotknow@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    7 hours ago

    By your own definition, then AI is now the internet. Prompts and outputs are the cars and trucks, while the data centers and models are the highway. 70% of the internet is running on data centers and models. What makes more of something, 30% or 70%?

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      6 hours ago

      Not even. The internet is the highway. The datacenters running the internet are the department of transportation. Average internet users are the compact hybrids, EVs, and cyclists who use the road. Prompts and outputs are the couriers driving various kinds of vehicles. AI datacenters are the giant trucks with smokestacks that smokescreen all the old grannies behind them.

      The prompts and outputs traveling over the internet consume a negligible amount of energy. The bulk of it is consumed by training giant LLMs with hundreds of billions of parameters. A lesser portion is consumed by the inferencing those models do to produce outputs, which is done at the AI datacenters, and not what travels over the internet via internet datacenters.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      7 hours ago

      You’ve misunderstood. AI datacenters are not the highway. Prompts and Outputs are the cars and trucks, the AI data centers are the factories making the cars. The highway is datacenters and transmission media that do not house AI and do not require the immense cooling or power that the AI datacenters use. The highway and the things on the highway are two entirely decoupled things.

      • baines@lemmy.cafe
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        4 hours ago

        human transportation in the abstract is the internet

        data is people

        data packets / rates (related tech) are the various vehicle types

        there was a time of no highways, what need do horse drawn carriages have for paved asphalt?

        highways are a direct though not immediate consequence of American car and civic planning policy

        if instead we had focused on mixed use walkable cities with connected mass transit instead of urban sprawl highways would be much reduced if not gone, just look at existing examples in eu etc

        so yes American cars and every nuance that implies in our current American reality are fucking highways

        • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          3 hours ago

          Incorrect. Let me help you out here:

          Human transportation in the abstract is computer networking in the abstract.

          The highway is the internet, the current physical implementation of the computer networking transportation system we call The Internet.

          You can go into minute detail on what the cars and trucks are, horse drawn carriages, people etc, but ultimately, the internet is the highway. It is separate from and fundamentally not responsible for what you choose to put on it.