> Artificial neural networks are already many orders of magnitude more energy intensive than natural neural networks.
What metric are you using to compare? By most counts, the energy budget of an instance of an LLM in a datacenter is lower than the energy a person uses. Of course, if you count energy per neuron connections vs weights then you'll likely get a quite different number. But then again LLMs do a lot of things with far fewer weights than the brain does neuron connections, even if you only count neurons in some parts of the brain. And of course you can point to capabilities that the brain has but LLMs lack, but on the whole it feels like it's pretty difficult to make a useful like-for-like comparison here.
What metric are you using to compare? By most counts, the energy budget of an instance of an LLM in a datacenter is lower than the energy a person uses. Of course, if you count energy per neuron connections vs weights then you'll likely get a quite different number. But then again LLMs do a lot of things with far fewer weights than the brain does neuron connections, even if you only count neurons in some parts of the brain. And of course you can point to capabilities that the brain has but LLMs lack, but on the whole it feels like it's pretty difficult to make a useful like-for-like comparison here.