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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 80 points 4 days ago

I love that your brain runs on like 2 watts and a junior science scout chemistry set but it takes enough energy to run a city to make a language model spit out Reddit madlibs.

[-] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 4 days ago

Doing a quick search to find a source, couldn't find just brain but I found numbers from as low as 12W to as high as 100W for the entire nervous system, which is still super efficient compared to chat bots!

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

clearly we need to develop mitochondria for machines (mitochondria are the real hero behind eukaryotic efficiency)

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