• TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I would say it’s more like 1000 times more energy. Trillions of matrix math computations for a handful of tokens at max speed and CPU/GPU usage, compared to a 10 millisecond database query (or in wiki’s case, probably mostly just easy direct edge node cache with no processing involved.)

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      12 hours ago

      Alright, yea sounds fair enough, even better motivation to prioritize search engines!