⁂ L. Rhodes on Nostr: In terms of cost, consider CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which had a budget of €7.5 ...

In terms of cost, consider CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which had a budget of €7.5 billion (~$8.7bil), and was built to explore some of physics' most fundamental questions. OpenAI's Startgate project alone is expected to cost $500 billion, and it's only one of dozens, if not hundreds, of megawatt AI projects planned. Of course, not all of that is devoted solely to LLM processing, but still, the investment that we, as a society, are pouring into LLMs is a geometric increase on what we put into what was previously the largest and most expensive research tool ever made, mostly to misuse them.