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> Since a human uses ~100W of power, the .24Watt-hours of energy > for an AI prompt is about 40human-seconds of energy. .24 Watt-hours is 864 Watts for one sec
by foofoo55 1y ago
> Since a human uses ~100W of power, the .24Watt-hours of energy
> for an AI prompt is about 40human-seconds of energy.
.24 Watt-hours is 864 Watts for one second, so a 100W human takes ~9 seconds for that output.
- OneLeggedCat 1y agoPerhaps sxp used an LLM to do his calculation.
- sxp 1y agoYou're right. It's clear I should have had an LLM write my comment rather than do it myself before a cup of coffee. I've already spent an order of magnitude more energy thinking about this article compared to an LLM. Also, since I live a first-world life style which consumes multiple KW of power, I've probably consumed multiple orders of magnitude energy more than an LLM on this topic.