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How Much Energy Does It Take to Think? | |
gchamonlive wrote 13 min ago: | |
I think there should also be a measure of how you think. It would seem | |
plausible to me that a fields medalist would use considerably less | |
energy to come up with solutions to general problems in math than | |
someone else. | |
wonger_ wrote 35 min ago: | |
"Thinking" covers a wide spectrum of activity and intensity, no? I | |
glanced through the references and the only tasks I found were Tetris | |
tasks. | |
blastro wrote 40 min ago: | |
Less than it takes an LLM to infer | |
dfex wrote 17 min ago: | |
Only because we've mastered caching | |
binarymax wrote 22 min ago: | |
I think comparisons like these are fraught with issues, but are you | |
sure? How much energy would you require to read and summarize 250k | |
words? | |
threeseed wrote 1 min ago: | |
You would still need to read and summarise the 250k words in order | |
to validate the LLM. | |
moffkalast wrote 41 min ago: | |
> they concluded that effortful, goal-directed tasks use only 5% more | |
energy than restful brain activity | |
That parallels the other conclusion that we don't really use that much | |
more energy when at rest and when exercising. If energy isn't used by | |
movement, it gets used for whatever to consume the predetermined daily | |
energy budget. | |
Our bodies seem to be really set up to work with a consistent fixed | |
energy amount and dealing with allocation of it instead of optimizing | |
idle efficiency. We don't idle. | |
Sir_Twist wrote 52 min ago: | |
Previous discussion: (82 points, 63 comments): | |
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44197961 | |
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