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xylenox

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xylenox··on GPT-5.6
Yep, people always forget that early LLMs were sold as "Zero Shot Learning".
xylenox··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
> Go-engines can beat the best humans at go, but they spend several orders of magnitude more energy to do so.

From what I can find AlphaGo Zero runs at ~400 watts, while a human brain uses ~20. So really only about 1 order of magnitude difference.

Of course, training costs are a different question entirely.