Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch
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"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."
    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      24 days ago

      Note that dietary calories are kilocalories, so 2,000 calories of food is 2,000,000 calories from a physics standpoint.

      This issue goes away if you use the proper SI unit, the joule.

    • Ice@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      24 days ago

      Whilst nothing you say here is wrong, humans have a tendency to want more things than machines. A place to live (perhaps a mansion with its own pool), transportation (maybe a private jet or a million dollar supercar) and other general recreation (such as a datacenter full of GPU’s hallucinating cartoons of scantily clad women). So really, a human is pretty energy intensive when you think about it, compared to their rather low number of working hours (eesh, sleep takes so much time).

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      24 days ago

      Kilocalories are basically watt-hours. How many images do you think a kilowatt gaming rig can generate in two hours, versus a human being drawing all day long?

      • AngryMob@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        23 days ago

        Yeah images is actually a bad example for us humans. Using a small model with a modern lora, you can generate near photorealistic images, easily 1 every second or so on moderate hardware.

        Granted we can make 1 “perfect” image better than most big image models typically can even with lots of time, but thats a different discussion.