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A lot worse. But, higher quality OCR will reduce the amount of human post-processing needed, and, in turn will allow us to reduce the number of humans. Since
by mlyle 2y ago
A lot worse. But, higher quality OCR will reduce the amount of human post-processing needed, and, in turn will allow us to reduce the number of humans. Since humans are relatively expensive in energy use, this can be expected to save a lot of energy.
- rafram 2y ago> Since humans are relatively expensive in energy use Are they? I'm seeing figures around 80 watts at rest, and 150 when exercising. The brain itself only uses about 20 watts [1]. That's 1/35 of a single H100's power consumption (700 watts - which doesn't even take into account the energy required to cool the data center, the humans who build and maintain it, ...). [1]: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/news/2023/09/04/learning-brain-make-ai-more-energy-efficient/#:~:text=It%20is%20estimated%20that%20a%20human%20brain,hydroelectric%20plant%20if%20they%20were%20done%20artificially. https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/news/2023/09/...
- mlyle 2y agoThe PUE of humans for that 80 watts is terrible, though. Ridiculous multiples of additional energy needed to convert solar power to a form of a energy that they can use, and even the manufacturing lifecycle and transport of humans to the datacenter is energy inefficient.