Good point:
"The industry could prioritize using less energy, build more efficient models and rethink how it designs and uses data centres. As the BigScience project in France demonstrated with its BLOOM model, it is possible to build a model of a similar size to OpenAI’s GPT-3 with a much lower carbon footprint. But that’s not what’s happening in the industry at large." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x #AI#generativeAI#energy#bloom#chatgpt#openai#nature
As Use of "AI" Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires
"Generative "artificial intelligence" uses massive amounts of #energy for computation and data storage and billions of gallons of #water to cool the equipment at data centers. Now, legislators and regulators — in the U.S. and the EU — are starting to demand accountability."
"As the BigScience project in France demonstrated with #BLOOM model3, it is possible to build a model of a similar size to #OpenAI’s GPT-3 with a much lower carbon footprint. But that’s not what’s happening in the industry at large."
Legislators should offer both carrots and sticks. At the outset, they could set benchmarks for #energy and #water use, incentivize the adoption of renewable energy and mandate comprehensive environmental reporting & impact assessments."
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Been tweaking my lens-flare again for the past few days and now reaching a point where I want to try some kind of anamorphic bloom.
Right now I went with a hack where I modify one of the downsample texture when it is fed for the upsample pass. It is giving me a rough idea of what to expect, but it's not good enough yet (not sharp enough, and some flickering issue to manage still).
Will likely need to do a proper downsample/upsample process too.