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fragmedeyesterday at 9:12 PM3 repliesview on HN

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


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bcatanzaroyesterday at 9:35 PM

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.

stavrosyesterday at 9:14 PM

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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kingofmenyesterday at 9:21 PM

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.

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