100x more inefficient than a human in only food is pretty efficient. Consider that humans in the developed world spend far more in energy on heating/AC, transportation, housing, lawn care, refrigeration, washers and dryers, etc, and an LLM can probably be several factors more efficient.
I don't really understand the critique of GPT-4 in particular. GPT-4 cost >$100 Million to train. But likely less than 1 billion. Even if they pissed out $100 million in pure greenhouse gases, that'd be a drop in the bucket compared to, say 1/1000 of the US military's contributions
I don't really understand the critique of GPT-4 in particular. GPT-4 cost >$100 Million to train. But likely less than 1 billion. Even if they pissed out $100 million in pure greenhouse gases, that'd be a drop in the bucket compared to, say 1/1000 of the US military's contributions