• Lembot_0005@lemy.lol
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    2 days ago

    but you completely miss the scales,

    I don’t. I see no reason to believe that machines use more energy than humans while achieving comparable results.

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      2 days ago
      1. We are talking about to vastly different entities, to even consider that they would be equal in terms of energy use for a similar task is dumb. That would be like expecting the energy use for transporting box by truck or by ship to be equal. That just doesn’t work.
      2. The results are not even comparable.
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        1 day ago

        Just to play devils advocate, how much energy goes into growing our food, processing our food, transporting our food. Our education, and entertainment. All of which go into the output we produce. I wondering if at that point the numbers get closer.

        When talking about these data centers, they often use the term enough to power a “small city.” So how much output could a “small city” of people produce? You’d have to break the result down into required man hours, and spread that across the population, as obviously the AI will do things faster than individual humans.