Ask HN: How much more power AI requires over Python's list sort

2 pointsyonisto1mo ago1 comments

So I got lazy today and asked the AI to sort alphabetically a list of names I got from the internet.

I hope someone can do the math and tell me how much more power it required to sort the 11 items in that list? how much more instruction (CPU/GPU) it required?

How much it will require if the list had 100 or 1000 items?

Thanks,

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allinonetools_1mo ago

For small lists, the energy difference is probably negligible in practice, but the interesting part is how often we’re starting to use AI for tasks that a few lines of code handle instantly. It’s a good reminder that convenience and efficiency don’t always point in the same direction.

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