Why is noone talking about the elephant in the room : at current LLM efficiency per W it's still around 1000x the one of our brain; interpolate and to replace us all we need to harness more than what the sun delivers...
Not a single comment about efficiency or consumption, only marketing stuff and bad analogies, not what it used to be HN... Where are all the nerds ?
That's the problem: if everything stayed at the current level of development, we would be fine. There is no reason to think that will be the case. Intelligence per watt has been rapidly improving [0]
> 1000x
Coincidentally, that is exactly the efficiency gain promised by ASICs like Taalas [1]
More adequate question would be why did Airbus go GCP instead of pushing a local french actor like OVH, Clever or Scale, decison that seemed right all along and that is eventually in place ? The answer is because of the bribe ex-CEO took !
And about espionage there's not much to spy on : no new plane ongoing, no fancy tech detained by Airbus, all the tech is the suppliers, Airbus is only an assembler. To prove my point see chinese aviation : it's been 20years we litteraly gave them the A320 and they are still far from producing anything of their own, they barely managed to have that copy called Comac flying !
Doubt sincerly any exec or manager ever belived the easier and cheaper motto !
In opposition to what has been said in this thread their IT teams are very good and have raised (in vain) warnings against GCP since the beginning.
The official motivations for the GCP move as given to us, plebs (already mentionned in other comms) :
- Financial move from CAPEX model (hosting own DC) to OPEX.
- Transfer of responsability in case of fail; you can charge ($$$) GCP for downtime, could't really do that on your own teams.
- Focus on business value and not on IT.
(IMHO all of them are wrong, beginnig with the last one : you design & assemble planes on computers; IT is obviously part of your core business model, even a strategic one !).
And about the why GCP vs a french local actor the answer was because of tech maturity.
The 'easy and cheaper' is tech propaganda, this never was part of debate simply because it's false and we all know it, even the high execs in their ivory tower.
Same thing as AI : haven't seen any big EU firm lay off big chunk of people to replace them with IA whereas in the US all the big ones already fired AND got the people back; US believes in it's own propaganda, EU doesn't ! Noone here thought we could fire sysadmins by moving services to CSPs, that always seemed like fake ad and reality is here to prove us right !
Not a single comment about efficiency or consumption, only marketing stuff and bad analogies, not what it used to be HN... Where are all the nerds ?