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Also the incessant ammounts of power/energy that they consume.
Running an llm llocally takes less power than playing a video game.
Source?
Any paper about any neural network.
Using a model to get one output is just a series of multiplications (not even that, we use vector multiplication but yeah), it's less than or equal to rendering ONE frame in 4k games.
I know you are agreeing with me, but it being a "series of multiplications" is not terribly informative, that's basically a given. The question is how many flops, and how efficient are flops.