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The amount of energy is truly absurd. I dont chug a 16 oz bottle of water every time I answer a question.

Neither do these models. The calculations I saw claiming some absurdly high energy or water use seemed like an absolute joke. Par for the course for a journalist at this point.

Energy efficiency might end up being the final remaining axis on which biological brains surpass manufactured ones before the singularity.

Computer energy efficiency is not as constrained as minimum feature size, it's still doubling every 2.6 years or so.

Even if they were, a human-quality AI that runs at human-speed for x10 our body's calorie requirements in electricity, would still (at electricity prices of USD 0.1/kWh) undercut workers earning the UN abject poverty threshold.