Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s shockingly tricky to answer precisely, but the commonly held value is that a human brain runs on about 20w, regardless of the computational load placed on it.

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So maybe .5 kwh/d. Still vastly more efficient than a code-based one.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  1.21 jigawatts

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ahh but you need 8 for a round trip

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