Human brains are far more energy efficient, if that's what you're asking.

bcatanzaro 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

sadly, disembodied brains are not very useful. embodied brains require a civilization's worth of energy consumption and environmental impact in order to do their work. so we really need to take the world's power/water/carbon impact (divided by the world population) to talk about how much power it takes for a human brain to solve a problem.

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stavros 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

An LLM takes twenty seconds to write a page. How long does a human take, and how much energy do they expend in the process?

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rplnt 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's kinda unfair until we have a device that can translate thoughts to writtrn text. Both from time and energy perspective. Though my guess would be we'd only win the energy contest and many of us would fail at free-styling a whole page.

	▲	stavros 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, I'll accept dictating at the speed of speech, though you kind of have to take things as they are now (otherwise it's cheating, if your metric is "who is more energy efficient at writing a page?"). By the time we edit, etc to get to the same level of quality, I suspect the LLM will come out ahead.

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kingofmen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For some given task, perhaps; but the AI only consumes power while actively working. The human has to run 24/7 and also expends energy on useless organs like kidneys, gonads, hopes, and dreams.

	▲	Legend2440 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's still not even close though. An entire human runs on somewhere around 100W. Life is remarkably energy efficient.