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AI will come for everyone , last day i read about truck driver (copilot) will be replaced by AI and today this.

• amelius 3y ago
  How much energy does a truck driver AI use compared to a human?
  • criley2 3y ago
    Energy is an interesting comparison. Perhaps we should look at $/energy unit, and compare those dollars to the full cost of hiring a human including time off and benefits and payroll taxes and everything. We should also consider that the human consumes a lot of energy that the AI does not: many truckers have PC's, TVs, consoles, etc in their truck and burn fuel to play video games during their off hours. I don't think we're going to replace truck drivers any time soon, but I'd be surprised if in say 30 years the vast majority of trucking wasn't automated.
    • hkon 3y ago
      But they would do that at home as well. So irrelevant. If anything they consume less energy than people in homes.
    • amelius 3y ago
      > Perhaps we should look at $/energy unit But then also consider the change in this price as energy consumption changes, as a result of jobs becoming AI.
  • the8472 3y ago
    Human energy consumption is highly variable. Especially when you do cradle-to-grave cost analysis. Are we talking about an average american truck driver? Or the ideal high-efficiency truck driver that is raised to only drive trucks, grows on agaragar and undergoes early depowering after its working years?
  • dist-epoch 3y ago
    How much energy does a human use in 18 years of training?
    • selimthegrim 3y ago
      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.
      • dist-epoch 3y ago
        A LLM trained once can be instantiated a million times, while each human instantiation requires individual full training.