If you want to play that game, let's compute how much energy was spent to grow, house and educate one team since they were born, over 20 years against how much was spent training the model.
If you want to play that game, let's compute how much energy was spent to grow, house and educate one team since they were born, over 20 years against how much was spent training the model.
This is a fair analogy, but let's also consider that these human beings weren't designed with the express purpose of becoming experts in their field and performing in this way for this specific purpose (albeit in a generalist manner).
We are most definitely in agreement about the folly of comparing the abilities of LLMs to humans, since LLMs are to a greater extent the product of much collective human endeavour. "Living memories" would perhaps be a better description of their current state, and their resultant impact on the human psyche.
a human being uses about 1 gWh in a lifetime on average.
Training one model nowadays uses more than that. So the model also cost more to train than to raise a team member (possibly all three of them)
whoops, got the numbers wrong. 1gWh is how much electricity a person uses, not how much energy the body consumes.
That works out to about 72 years365 days2000 kcal = approx 61 gWh