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