Yep, clueless. I stopped reading at that point. For the audience, large language models come in all sizes and you can run some small but useful ones fairly quickly even without a GPU. They keep getting more capable for the size as well. Remember the uproar about Deepseek R1? Well, progress hasn’t stopped.
On Sky News, Peta Credlin said the Liberals should’ve leaned more into the culture wars. In quick retort Murray Watt welcomed her strategy. They’re in denial.
No, the current corporate approach of large scale AI typically uses a lot of water. It is not the only approach.
Let's also not forget that there are places where water is plentiful and these levels of consumption would be OK. The problem is they are competing with other water uses.
Top left, someone boutta get smacked