An excellent overview of the development in the world of #LLMs in the last year, put together by @simon in his "Things we learned about LLMs in 2024": https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/. Remember the YouTube paradox where the engineers made the site faster, but globally overall load times went up because suddenly more people could use it? I wonder if something like this could happen with LLMs and the environmental impact of prompts: individual prompts get cheaper, but overall energy consumption goes up.
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It wasn't YouTube, but main Google. I fail to find the original story, but the conclusions of this blog post mention it: https://danluu.com/web-bloat/.
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