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When you think about it it's astounding how much energy this technology consumes versus a human brain which runs at ~20W [1]. [1] https://hypertextbook.com/fac
by ciconia 2y ago
When you think about it it's astounding how much energy this technology consumes versus a human brain which runs at ~20W [1].
[1] https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JacquelineLing.shtml https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JacquelineLing.shtml
- concerndc1tizen 2y ago20w for 20 years to answer questions slowly and error-prone at the level of a 30B model. An additional 10 years with highly trained supervision and the brain might start contributing original work.
- rwyinuse 2y agoAnd yet that 20w brain can make me a sandwich and bring it to me, while state of the art AI models will fail that task. Until we get major advances in robotics and models designed to control them, true AGI will be nowhere near.
- sekai 2y ago> Until we get major advances in robotics and models designed to control them, true AGI will be nowhere near. AGI has nothing to do with robotics, if AGI is achieved it will help push robotics and every single scientific field further with progression never seen before, imagine a million AGIs running in parallel focused on a single field.
- onlyrealcuzzo 2y agoWe already have that. It's called civilization. Maybe you mean quadrillions of AGIs?
- vbezhenar 2y agoMultiply that by billion, because only very few individuals of entire populations can contribute original work.
- anon373839 2y agoIt’s almost as if human intelligence doesn’t involve performing repeated matrix multiplications over a mathematically transformed copy of the internet. ;-)
- steveoscaro 2y agoIt’s interesting that even if raw computing power had advanced decades earlier, this type of AI would still not be possible without that vast trove of data that is the internet.
- tim333 2y agoIt makes you think there must be more efficient algorithms out there.
- echoangle 2y agoMaybe the problem isn't the algorithm but the hardware. Numerically simulating the thermal flow in a lightbulb or CFD of a Stone flying through air is pretty hard, but the physical thing isn't that complex to do. We're trying to simulate the function of a brain which is basically an analog thing using a digital computer. Of course that can be harder than running the brain itself.
- tim333 2y agoIf you think of human neurons they seem to basically take inputs from bunch of other neurons, possibly modified by chemical levels and send out a signal when they get enough. It seems like something that could be functionally simulated in software by some fairly basic adding up inputs type stuff rather than needing the details of all the chemistry.
- r3d0c 2y agolol, just done that simply huh? said by someone who doesn't have a teenth of understanding of neurobiology or neuropsychology only on hackernews
- dominicrose 2y agoA human brain is also more intelligent (hopefully) and is inside a body. In a way GPT resembles Google more than it resembles us.
- soheil 2y agoA human brain has been in continuous training for hundreds of thousands of years consuming slightly more than 20 watts.
- soulofmischief 2y agoYou've discovered the importance of well-formed priors. The human brain is the result of millions of years of very expensive evolution.