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The human brain also is a product of billions of years of evolution. We branched off from our common ancestor 7-9 million years ago. We encode quite a lot of structure and information that is essential for intelligence. The starting point of just our life time of training is incomplete.

If you calculate 100W * 7 million years * 365 = 255,500MW to train.

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If you really want to go down that path then AI's are the product of human ingenuity and labor so you have to amortize all of that into AI training. Then numbers become pretty meaningless very quickly. That sand didn't up and start thinking on its own you know.

That's the NRE of getting to where we are and having these llms

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