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Why is noone talking about the elephant in the room : at current LLM efficiency per W it's still around 1000x the one of our brain; interpolate and to replace us all we need to harness more than what the sun delivers...

Not a single comment about efficiency or consumption, only marketing stuff and bad analogies, not what it used to be HN... Where are all the nerds ?

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> current

That's the problem: if everything stayed at the current level of development, we would be fine. There is no reason to think that will be the case. Intelligence per watt has been rapidly improving [0]

> 1000x

Coincidentally, that is exactly the efficiency gain promised by ASICs like Taalas [1]

[0] https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2025-11-11-ipw

[1] https://taalas.com/

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