A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne (Switzerland) proved that data centers are a scam.

With their software, an IA the size of ChatGPT can work with just a local network of FOUR computers (total price €9,600 / $11,280).

No need for the cloud.
No need for data centers wasting water and money.

https://goodtech.info/anyway-systems-epfl-ia-locale-cloud-decentralise/

#ai #datacenter #tech #opensource #cloud #environment #climatechange #water #news

L'EPFL dynamite les GAFAM : L'IA de la taille de ChatGPT tourne sur 4 PC à 2300 € (et sans le Cloud)

Des chercheurs de l'EPFL lancent Anyway Systems, un logiciel qui permet d'exécuter des modèles d'IA massifs sur un cluster local de quatre machines standard. C'est la fin de la dépendance au cloud.

^{Rédaction (Linagora)}

#PSA - I recently stopped my windows based computer backing every document and photo to the #Cloud because fuck #Microsoft and their #LLM - I never asked for their fucking cloud storage in the first place. Or their LLM that they incorrectly call AI - it is not AI and can’t even add up.

Anyway, as part of this process, Microsoft then automatically deleted all my files - *including* the versions on my own computer. Fuck Microsoft.

As it happens, I back up all my computer files on an external HardDisk on the first day of every month. As a result, I was able to copy the files and directories back to my computer with little disruption.

If you are going to disconnect from your cloud storage - be warned in advance … back up all your files and directories on an external Hard Disk first.