In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number of different things we’re going to pursue for savings.”

  • Eximius@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Are you perchance ignoring the petawatt-hours that were needed to train and distil your local AI model?

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      Yes, it is already developed. Nuclear bombs killed people, does not mean we should stop all research into fusion.

      Me downloading the model does not light up a data center somewhere else. I run it on my local laptop.