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Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End (futurism.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

True, my estimate for tokens may have been a bit low. Assuming a 7 hour school day where someone talks at 5 tokens/sec you'd encounter about 120k tokens. You're off by 3 orders of magnitude on your energy consumption though; 1 watt-hour is 0.86 food Calories (kcal).