"yes Lee Sedol only consumes 20-40W during a game, but you have to sum all the energy consumed to create him, and the power he consumes when he's not playing etc" but then they fail to apply the same logic to computers
Sum all the energy required to create computers over the past however many 50+ years then let's see if it's the case that computers made by evolved computers are any more efficient than their evolved creators
In contrast, making a Lee Sedol will never be cheaper, and he lacks all of the other myriad advantages of software, like being instantly clonable and continuously improvable. You will never be able to mash up Shusaku and Sedol to see what they do, train them against each other for subjective millennia, examine the internals of their position evaluation, increase or decrease the sizes of their brains, compress them into much smaller neural nets, combine with other algorithms like MCTS, etc. Energy consumption is among the least important aspects of AI at the moment. We are not in a situation where we know how to make a feasible human-level AI but because electricity costs 10 cents/kwh no one can run, but they could if electricity cost 5 cents/kwh...