• secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 days ago

    How the hell can they even afford that?! There are so many Gmail users and so many emails a second and Gemini will summarize them all? That sounds so expensive and like a waste of resources

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        6 days ago

        Actually, investment in AI is necessary for competing with other nations.

        The “end of skilled labor” selling point is just to cover up that fact that we need AI because other nations will have it.

        Countries are modern-day fiefs.

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      6 days ago

      Google makes a lot of money, and summarising stuff uses a surprisingly small amount of energy. You can do it trivially on-device on a laptop and on plenty of phones.

      When it comes to LLMs, training the models is generally the thing that requires ridiculous amounts of energy.

      This is dumb as fuck, though. I don’t want Google’s LLM to miss out critical details in my emails. That shit could be important. If people want this they should opt in.