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by sqeaky 3707 days ago
Let's do some Math!

Assuming 2000 Calories per day a megawatt is about 240.000 calories per second we can do some silly calculations. Assuming AlphaGo consumed one megawatt for 1 whole day then it consumed about 20,736,000,000. This is probably low. This is enough Calories for a human for 28,405 years. If we split the Calories accross 500 that accounts for 57 years apiece.

I had no clue where this would turn out when I start. If we presume AlphaGo can run on a 1,000 Watt machine we can still divide all these numbers by 1,000 and they still hold, so 28.4 years of human calories.