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by Barbing 1 day ago
Excellent analysis, and

> However, if you sleep instead of sitting around, you can probably make AI cost competitive.

important consideration.

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Yeah, it gets weird when you start trying to compare human versus AI energy demands because you can turn a computer off, but you can't really turn a human off. Most studies indicate that humans can do 3-4 hours of high-level knowledge work in a day. An AI is not limited by these restrictions; it could do 24 straight hours of work if you wanted it to. So do we count all the energy the human burned for the remaining 20 hours of the day and allocate it to those 4 hours? Or are we just comparing "energy spent working on the task" for the AI and the human?
:D

The jokes are aside now!

Maybe we gotta include all 24, since no one will ever* get the 4 without the 20 of sleep/eat/relax.

*least probably not long term with FTEs I assume

Though for employers who send employees home it should be OK to ignore what employees do outside of work…