Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent
tartarin@reddthat.com 3 weeks agoHowever, 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.
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.
cheesorist@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Potatar@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
But this comparison is weighing people as tools vs alternative tools.
tartarin@reddthat.com 3 weeks 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.
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And we “need” none of that to live. We just choose to use it.