Showing posts with label brain. Show all posts
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Friday, 4 July 2025

A Tea for an AI sketch

I asked some artificial intelligence systems how much energy they use when summoned to draw an image. 

They all came to the conclusion that is varies from 100th of a kilowatt-hour to one tenth of a kilowatt-hour. 

It takes AI roughly enough energy to heat up a cup of coffee to make one image
~image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT) 

The AI systems agreed that the human brain uses about half a kilowatt-hour per day. The human brain is constantly processing image and sound information and controlling the body at the same time. The Human Brain does more processing work with less energy. It is a whole little world powered by an egg and cress sandwich. It hosts consciousness itself and countless thoughts.