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AI is not actual intelligence. However, it can produce results better than a significant number of professionally employed people…

I am reminded of when word processors came out and “administrative assistant” dwindled as a role in mid-level professional organizations, most people - even increasingly medical doctors these days - do their own typing. The whole “typing pool” concept has pretty well dried up.

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tartarin@reddthat.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
However, there is a huge energy cost for that speed to process statistically the information to mimic intelligence. The human brain is consuming much less energy. Also, AI will be fine with well defined task where innovation isn’t a requirement. As it is today, AI is incapable to innovate.

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- MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  The human brain is consuming much less energy
  
  Yes, but when you fully load the human brain’s energy costs with 20 years of schooling, 20 years of “retirement” and old-age care, vacation, sleep, personal time, housing, transportation, etc. etc. - it adds up.
  
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- cheesorist@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  much less? I’m pretty sure our brains need food and food requires lots of other stuff that need transportation or energy themselves to produce.
  
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  - tartarin@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Your brain is running on sugar. Do you take into account the energy spent in coal mining, oil fields exploration, refinery, transportation, electricity transmission loss when computing the amount of energy required to build and run AI? Do you take into account all the energy consumption for the knowledge production in first place to train your model? Running the brain alone is much less energy intensive than running an AI model. And the brain can create actual new content/knowledge. There is nothing like the brain. AI excel at processing large amount of data, which the brain is not made for.
    
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  - Potatar@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Customarily, when doing these kind of calculations we ignore stuff which keep us alive because these things are needed regardless of economic contributions, since you know people are people and not tools.
    
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    MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    people are people and not tools
    
    But this comparison is weighing people as tools vs alternative tools.
    
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  - Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And we “need” none of that to live. We just choose to use it.
    
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burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
you can give me a sandwige and ill do a better job than AI

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- MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  But, will you do it 24-7-365?
  
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  - burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    i dont have anything else going on, man
    
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    MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There’s that… though even when you’re bored, you still sleep sometimes.
    
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