• secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    How the hell can they even afford that?! There are so many Gmail users and so many emails a second and Gemini will summarize them all? That sounds so expensive and like a waste of resources

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      1 month ago

      Google makes a lot of money, and summarising stuff uses a surprisingly small amount of energy. You can do it trivially on-device on a laptop and on plenty of phones.

      When it comes to LLMs, training the models is generally the thing that requires ridiculous amounts of energy.

      This is dumb as fuck, though. I don’t want Google’s LLM to miss out critical details in my emails. That shit could be important. If people want this they should opt in.