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Neurodivergent sad beige dev. Trying to read more.
I also like to talk about sustainable tech, global injustice, and vodka. #techfornewbies and #legacysystems blogs https://maggierphunt.medium.com
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Full English Language summary here : maggierphunt.medium.com/english-lang...
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My post above illustrates many more of the scary stats from this report - and a link to the real thing! - but fundamentally, the ultimate recommendation of the report has never been truer: we HAVE to use good judgement when it comes to our use of IT. There is no Planet B 🌍
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The biggest number for me though was that in terms of resource, mineral and metal consumption over 60% of global consumption was attributable to user device manufacturing. That is nuts (and reminds me to ask you all to read Siddharth Kara’s Cobalt Red!)
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It really hit home that IT takes up 27% per person (40% per internet user) of their ‘sustainable annual budget’ of GHG’s - and User Devices also accounted for the largest swathe of GHG emissions (over half, across manufacturing and utilisation).
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One significant point from the survey is that the depletion of mineral and metal resources is becoming as important as GHGs. This is especially relevant to user technology such as smartphones, IoT devices and TV’s. Our natural resources are finite!
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Excitingly, this study provides the first global quantification of the impact of servers dedicated to AI!
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This survey looked at the full lifecycle of IT: the manufacturing, distribution, use and disposal of IT devices globally.
This was across user devices, networks and datacentres globally.
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As promised…
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That's not the "model" responding that way, that's with filtering on the input prompt. If you download and use a local copy (the one I am quoting from is the 32B version), it responds with ...
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First, what is DeepSeek? A Chinese firm that was able to produce an open-source AI model with roughly 1/50th of the resources of state-of-the-art models yet still beat OpenAI’s o1 on several benchmarks. 2/
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Yes I agree. I think we’re struggling to balance our principles with the need to market it the way the market will respond enthusiastically!