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by dist-epoch 889 days ago
How much energy does a human use in 18 years of training?
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There was a very good talk at NeurIPS this year that was comparing LLM training to amount of energy expended in building wonders of the world. I think this would’ve been a good thing to include too.
A LLM trained once can be instantiated a million times, while each human instantiation requires individual full training.