Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
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A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
    953·
    18 hours ago

    Look, if you know a way to convert a PDF to text with less than 500GB of VRAM and 2000W of power used for twenty seconds, I’m all ears.

    • uszo165@futurology.todayEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      Runs on anything that runs Linux:

      NAME
       pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03)

SYNOPSIS
       pdftotext [options] PDF-file [text-file]

DESCRIPTION
       Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.

       Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-file.  If text-file is not speci‐
       fied,  pdftotext  converts file.pdf to file.txt.  If text-file is ´-', the text is sent to stdout.  If
       PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.