▲ | dist-epoch 5 days ago | |||||||
If you want to play that game, let's compute how much energy was spent to grow, house and educate one team since they were born, over 20 years against how much was spent training the model. | ||||||||
▲ | somewholeother 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
This is a fair analogy, but let's also consider that these human beings weren't designed with the express purpose of becoming experts in their field and performing in this way for this specific purpose (albeit in a generalist manner). We are most definitely in agreement about the folly of comparing the abilities of LLMs to humans, since LLMs are to a greater extent the product of much collective human endeavour. "Living memories" would perhaps be a better description of their current state, and their resultant impact on the human psyche. | ||||||||
▲ | vrighter 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
a human being uses about 1 gWh in a lifetime on average. Training one model nowadays uses more than that. So the model also cost more to train than to raise a team member (possibly all three of them) | ||||||||
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