>“But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman said. “It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."
Human consumption of ~2000-2500 kcal/day is roughly 97-121 Wh. If that human lives to be 80 years old and keeps a constant energy consumption of ~100 Wh, then their total energy consumption is ~56 MWh.
GPT-3 consumed approximately 1.287 GWh during its training.
GPT-4 consumed 50-60 GWh.
Swing and miss.
