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Saxicola โœ… ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
Acin

@chaosmonkey @saxicola

I started with how much time a human subject matter expert might take to write out quick answers like if chatting with a curious friend or a story writer. This is from my personal experience with authors, tech researchers, avid forums helpers, and educatorsโ€”compared to what I know of ChatGPT. So, you know, it's a guesstimate.

For the comparable queries with at least chatbot-level accuracy: 15 minutes, or a quarter of an hour.

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@chaosmonkey @saxicola

I started with how much time a human subject matter expert might take to write out quick answers like if chatting with a curious friend or a story writer. This is from my personal experience with authors, tech researchers, avid forums helpers, and educatorsโ€”compared to what I know of ChatGPT. So, you know, it's a guesstimate.

13 May at 20:43 | Open on mastodon.art
Acin

@chaosmonkey @saxicola

I needed something quick for how much water the model person would use. That was "an average person needs eight cups of water a day".

8 cups / 24 hours = 0.3333 cups/hour

A quarter of that is 0.0833 cups / 15 minutes.

1.000 litre = 4.227 cups

0.0833 / 4.227 = 0.0197 litres

But I'd needed half a litre, not a litre in the conversion, so the number is doubled for 0.0394.

As a percentage, that's rounded to 4%.

13 May at 20:44 | Open on mastodon.art
Saxicola โœ… ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

@shadowfals @chaosmonkey
Nicely done. I hope @chaosmonkey is satisfied.

13 May at 20:48 | Open on toot.community
Martijn

@saxicola @shadowfals I always welcome and appreciate open, honest, transparent and civil discourse / reactions based on facts and logic. ๐Ÿ˜€

The calculation has definitely given me food for thought.

13 May at 21:02 | Open on masto.ai
Martijn

@shadowfals @saxicola I appreciate the calculation and by extension your transparency. โค๏ธ

Personally I would probably have started with the premise of "the average person requires at least two litres of water per day" but that's what I'm used to.

I think I'll try out some similar calculations. Maybe create a site where people can compare energy expenditure between various things like "the average google search" or "three minutes of youtube"

13 May at 20:54 | Open on masto.ai
Acin

@chaosmonkey where I live, cups are more commonly used as measurement. I had to look up the conversion to litres. Starting with litres would definitely be simpler!

13 May at 21:25 | Open on mastodon.art
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