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So, first, that's just a reduction. But set that aside, and let's talk big picture here.
My GPU can use something like 400 watts.
A human is about 100 watts constant power consumption.
So even setting aside all other costs of a human and only paying attention to direct energy costs, if an LLM running on my GPU can do something in under a quarter the time I can, then it's more energy-efficient.
I won't say that that's true for all things, but there are definitely things that Stable Diffusion or the like can do today in a whole lot less than a quarter the time it would take me.
Chat GPT can output an article in a much shorter time than it'd take me to write one but people would probably like mine more