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I checked it out and it doesn't have a lot going on yet, but is an interesting development

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At my engineering school, we had a mandatory lecture of the environmental impact of IT. Initially, I thought it was some bullshit lecture that the education ministry imposed on us, and all I had to do was sign the attendance sheet at the end and be done with it.

But it did stick with me, we know that crypto mining consumes massive amounts of power to the point where Ethereum had to switch to the more efficient Proof-of-Stake in late 2022. Now, the recent hype of AI is starting to exacerbate energy consumption since petabytes of data have to be stored in data centres, then the models have to be trained for months on end.

In fact, there are many sectors of IT industry that consumes gigantic amount of energy, and I think it's something to be considered when we're using the Internet.

Here's an article by Raphael Lemaire (in French, but you can translate it): https://raphael-lemaire.com/2019/11/02/mise-en-perspective-impacts-numerique/

I also found this really interesting website that tests the environmental impact of your website. Lemmy.ml got a F.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find an English-language equivalent of this website, but I still found it interesting enough to share.

So close. Not that the arbitrary number matter much, but still, from a marketing perspective it would have been a win.

This is a translation of an article I've just written in Spanish. If there is any error, let me know.

Would you use one?

I think an app would definitely be more accessible to most people for a lower price. But it doesn't work as well to motivate you (peer pressure and having someone there still works best).

tl;dr:

FCC chair to investigate exactly how much everyone hates data caps ISPs clearly have technical ability to offer unlimited data, chair's office says.

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel wants the FCC to open a formal inquiry into how data caps harm Internet users and why broadband providers still impose the caps.

The inquiry could eventually lead to the FCC regulating how Internet service providers such as Comcast impose limits on data usage.

"As we emerge from the pandemic, there are many lessons to learn about what worked and what didn't work, especially around what it takes to keep us all connected. When we need access to the Internet, we aren't thinking about how much data it takes to complete a task, we just know it needs to get done. It's time the FCC take a fresh look at how data caps impact consumers and competition."

Meta says its new speech-generating AI model is too dangerous for public release.

Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet:

There are many exciting use cases for generative speech models, but because of the potential risks of misuse, we are not making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at this time. 

The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic” translation in the future, among other things.

In countries where the pandemic is still a national emergency, the rules will remain.

Third-party integrations from Atlassian, Figma, and others gives collaborators an easy way to check the status of work from multiple sources.

A landmark right-to-repair law in Massachusetts is great for car owners. The US government argues it’s also great for hackers.

Please let me know if this is the wrong space to post this.

I have a longstanding professional project that involves a lot of sharing and un-sharing of many folders and individual files. Many are hi-res video files, some are audio files.

Current total filesize is around 650GB and growing with each new version of our project.

Currently we're using Google Drive, but that has proven to be incredibly annoying, since we can't set an expiration date on access, and sharing through aliases is just a mess, to the point that I frequently end up duplicating the files and sharing the dupes, simply because it's faster.

I'm somewhat familiar with most major cloud-based filehosting services like Box, Dropbox, etc., but when we settled on GDrive a few years ago, we did so because the other services either didn't charge a flat fee, or they were kinda slow, or some other reason.

What we're looking for:

-Cloud-based -2TB (at least, to plan for the future) -Flat monthly/yearly fee -Advanced filesharing/access options -Able to handle deep directory hierarchies -Able to designate multiple admins -Fast up/download -Can create account regardless of email provider

Any suggestions? Thanks!

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/127188

Have you ever heard of “net metering”?

It means that if your electric company gives you net metering, you can connect a generator or solar panels to your house and sell excess electricity back to the utility at the same price that they bill you for.

Sounds great right?

No, actually its a major problem for the utility.

The reason is that power plants take a significant amount of time to throttle up or down. If everyone in the area has solar power feeding back into the power grid, sudden changes in sunlight can cause major fluctuations and destabilize the power grid.

So what is the solution?

Dynamic pricing. Some areas already do this. How it works is that the price you pay (or receive) for electricity depends on the conditions on the power grid at the moment, updating as fast as possible.

When the grid has a deficit of power at the moment (maybe a power plant is struggling to throttle up to meet demand) the price goes way up.

If the grid has a surplus power at the moment, the price goes down, even going negative.(meaning you must pay to dump your power into the grid, or be paid for consuming excess power)

What this does is create an economic incentive for people to invest in equipment that actually stabilizes and supports the power grid.

For example if you have an electric car charging in your garage, it knows the price of power, and it can start charging faster when the price drops, or it can dump its battery power back into the grid when the price is high. The battery in your car is actually earning money as it sits idle!

Same with solar panels. Even if the installation doesn’t have batteries, the system can choose to stop selling power to the grid when it isn’t wanted.

Likewise, your heated pool can choose to absorb electricity when the price is low.

This is the future of the renewable energy economy in my opinion.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/228673

I would like to share with everyone an incredible resource put together by the LMSYS Org.

In essence, it is a new Elo rating leaderboard for large language models based on anonymous voting data collected in the wild. I will be sharing major updates to this leaderboard regularly.

If you have no idea what is going on in AI and simply want to be in the know in regards to which models in the open-source communities are the best - this is the thread for you.

Consider visiting and subscribing to /c/FOSAI if you want to keep up with the latest and greatest advancements in free, open-source artificial intelligence.

You should also bookmark or save this leaked article from one of Google's employees. It does a great job illustrating how big tech companies are scrambling to contain free, open-source AI.

Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

It is a fascinating insight into some of the minds that pioneered this technology in the first place. We can do a deeper conversational post on this article later on, but watching how it ages over these coming months will be interesting to say the least.

I did not make this leaderboard, so if you want more insights into the rankings please visit the LMSYS site to show your support and dive deeper into the models.

For fun, I asked GPT-4 to convert the table into eSport inspired ladder rankings. These were the results. Hopefully this helps give you a better frame of reference for this field of emerging tech.

• Challenger #1 - GPT-4 by OpenAI (Elo Rating: 1225) - This is a proprietary model.
• Challenger #2 - Claude-v1 by Anthropic (Elo Rating: 1195) - This is also a proprietary model.
• Challenger #3 - Claude-instant-v1 (Elo Rating: 1153) - This model is lighter, less expensive, and much faster version of Claude. It's a proprietary model as well.
• Master - GPT-3.5-turbo by OpenAI (Elo Rating: 1143) - Another proprietary model from OpenAI.
• Diamond I - Vicuna-13B (Elo Rating: 1054) - This is a chat assistant fine-tuned from LLaMA on user-shared conversations by LMSYS. The weights are available for non-commercial use.
• Diamond II - PaLM 2 (Elo Rating: 1042) - This is a chat model tuned for chat and powers Bard. It's a proprietary model.
• Diamond III - Vicuna-7B (Elo Rating: 1007) - Similar to Vicuna-13B, this model has also been fine-tuned from LLaMA on user-shared conversations by LMSYS. The weights are available for non-commercial use.
• Platinum I - Koala-13B (Elo Rating: 980) - A dialogue model for academic research by BAIR. The weights are available for non-commercial use.
• Platinum II - mpt-7b-chat (Elo Rating: 952) - This is a chatbot fine-tuned from MPT-7B by MosaicML. It is released under CC-By-NC-SA-4.0 license.
• Platinum III - FastChat-T5-3B (Elo Rating: 941) - This chat assistant was fine-tuned from FLAN-T5 by LMSYS. It's available under Apache 2.0 license.
• Gold I - Alpaca-13B (Elo Rating: 937) - This model is fine-tuned from LLaMA on instruction-following demonstrations by Stanford. The weights are available for non-commercial use.
• Gold II - RWKV-4-Raven-14B (Elo Rating: 928) - An RNN with transformer-level LLM performance. It's available under Apache 2.0 license.
• Gold III - Oasst-Pythia-12B (Elo Rating: 921) - An Open Assistant for everyone by LAION. It's also available under Apache 2.0 license.
• Silver I - ChatGLM-6B (Elo Rating: 921) - An open bilingual dialogue language model by Tsinghua University. The weights are available for non-commercial use.
• Silver II - StableLM-Tuned-Alpha-7B (Elo Rating: 882) - Stability AI language models. These models are released under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.
• Silver III - Dolly-V2-12B (Elo Rating: 866) - An instruction-tuned open large language model by Databricks. It is

I think we all recognize #1. But notice how fast we are in catching up. In case you forgot, GPT-4 was released by OpenAI on March 14, 2023. Three months later we have multiple competing models with many commercially available ones not far behind.

This leaderboard is a testament to the power of open-source. Perhaps there is a moat, perhaps there isn't. I don't know the answer to this, but I am very hopeful we'll see some incredible breakthroughs in our lifetimes. Perhaps even in the near future if we continue advancing at this rapid pace.

It's also important to consider NVIDIA's Grace Hopper AI Superchip was announced not too long ago. With AMDs surge towards AI, we're in for a boom in the coming years.

What does that mean for us? For you? For technology as a whole?

I know this is a lot to keep up with, so if you're overwhelmed, consider subscribing. All will be explained in due time! This next year is going to be very interesting. I appreciate you taking a break from Reddit and sharing this journey with us here.

We have many more exciting news around the corner. We'll do our best to break it down ELI5 style and in-depth for those who want a deep dive into the technology and how it all works.

I highly recommend reading through both parts of this blog. It's a really interesting read.

Link to part 2: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html

I keep thinking this would have been a much better sell to devs and to users. I have always used Sync, and Boost. I tried the official app a few times, but really only used it for the chat feature. I didn't want to pay for it, but (I am embarrassed to admit it) I would pay premium to keep my app. I think this would have worked out better for Reddit than the garbage they are pulling right now.

Would that have been a more reasonable solution in your opinion as well?

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