• Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    10 Terabytes. 1 letter is 2 bytes in unicode. 10e12 bytes. 5e12 letters. 1 word is about 5 letters. 1e12 words. Assuming 500 words per page, that would be 2e9 pages. Page thickness assumed at 1e-4. 2e5 meters, if you stack all the pages. 200 kilometers high tower of paper.

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      1 month ago

      Meaning that to train even the tiniest LLM you can get you need a stack of paper so tall it could get knocked by satellites.

      This is the scale that people miss when they talk about “writing some stuff to train an AI model”.