My shit ass wetware needs to lock in and catch up. It can't even run Doom or play back Bad Apple properly.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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Visualise playing Doom in your head. It's free, and the cops can't stop you.
"You wouldn't imagine downloading a car, would you?"
Well? Would you?!
.....?
ANSWER ME!!
What would happen if you did the equivalent of feeding your A.I. a healthy diet, then run a parallel system and fed it only burgers and pizza and Doritos?
Nothing, cos energy is energy
you could probably get more energy burning a burger in a generator, than eating it. BM
Efficiency wins out.
If you ever study biochemistry, it leaves you absolutely in awe. The best engineering we can do is pretty amazing, we have computers and airplanes and all this magic stuff, but the stuff in you is a hundred, a thousand times better made. It's stunning. Comparatively speaking, it is perfect. And that's only the stuff we understand. The stuff in your brain, we do not.
The fact that we only recently mapped out the brain really tells you a lot about its complexity.
And that was only a fruit fly brain! Human brain still hasn't been mapped.
Hold my nanostructured beer.
But there was no switcharoo
Where’s the switcharoo? There’s supposed to be a Lemmy shattering switcharoo‽
In the relatively short amount of time we've had with computers we've made pretty astounding progress though. If we had had a few million years to improve those silicon brains I think we'd give evolution a run for its money!
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Antivirus protection could be better, though. Oh, and the built in self destruct is kind of a bummer, too.
It is a planned obsolescence.
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This article estimates that GPT-4 took around 55 GWh of electricity to train. A human needs maybe 2000 kcal (2.3 kWh) a day and lives 75 years, for a lifetime energy consumption of 63 MWh (or 840x less than just training GPT-4).
So not only do shitty "AI" models use >20x the energy of a human to "think," training them uses the lifetime energy equivalent of hundreds of humans. It's absolutely absurd how inefficient this technology is.
Human energy needs are incredibly variable so the estimates for normal consumption are wrong for most people, but when you get into essential systems (basically cardiovascular and nervous, not even including digestive or any muscle movement) you actually need even less - the average (by weight, height & age) man needs 1950kcal or so and the average woman (by height, weight & age) needs 1450kcal or so
When we replace AI with brains in jars I'm sure we can cut it down even more though
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My brain has the same power draw as a Switch 2? This explains a lot...
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