Ethan Mollick@emollick · XAI 摘要
基于公开估算，LLM解决Erdos问题的资源消耗极低：电力仅0.6–6.3千瓦时（相当于电动汽车行驶数英里），水耗约3–31升（少于三颗杏仁的耗水量）。引用的估算进一步指出，该过程使用了GPT-5.6 Pro，处理时间约5至32小时，成本在120至1000美元之间。核心观点是，相对于解决这类数学问题的重大成果而言，LLM所需的资源和时间投入并不算多。
If this is true， using the best public estimates we have of LLM resource use， solving this Erdos problem took 0.6-6.3 kWh of electricity and about 3-31 liters of water.
So that is less than three almonds worth of water and the electricity equivalent of 2-20 miles of EV driving.
just quick napkin math on how long this took (unless i missed where they said): the published CoT summary is 111,145 tokens long. it's really hard to say how mu...