Joules-to-GDP: Economic Value Produced Per Unit of AI Energy
arXiv 2610.30858
Zeinali, Saad-Falcon, Narayan et al. · Stanford / UC Berkeley / UT Austin · 220 GDPval tasks · 44 occupations · 5 models
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Joules-to-GDP: Economic Value Produced Per Unit of AI Energy
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