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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Energy Needs, AI, Humans, Dolphins -- December 17, 2025

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Energy: this came up in discussion with ChatGPT with regard to energy usage, a topic that started with AI. It was a very, very long discussion with ChatGPT with regard to the correlation (direct?) of energy demand by the human brain and that of AI. As tokenization and parameters increase, AI energy needs will only increase, all things being equal. 

That discussion with ChatGPT was carried on some weeks ago and I completely forgot about it until I heard some comments Jim Cramer made yesterday with regard to energy demands of large AI centers (which have much in common with the human brain). Cramer made a statement that I thought was glaringly wrong and his co-anchor thought the same thing. Fact-checking proved Cramer was indeed wrong. In the screen shots below, note the words "significant" and "overwhelmingly." So, although mitigating energy demand driven by cabling will help, that's not, as Willie Sutton would say, where the money is.

Amount of energy the human brain needs as a percentage of total human energy:


Amount of energy the dolphin brain needs as a percentage of total dolphin energy:

Stretching prior to starting jiu-jitsu practice: 

Link here.


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It's absolutely surprising how interesting and enjoyable it is to read Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. About half-way through, maybe ten to twenty pages / day. Should finish within the next couple of weeks.