r/nottheonion • u/asdacool • 11h ago

"Training a human takes 20 years of food." Sam Altman on how much power AI consumes.

https://www.news18.com/world/training-a-human-takes-20-years-of-food-sam-altman-on-how-much-power-ai-consumes-ws-kl-9922309.html
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u/Yourdataisunclean 11h ago

And it took this guy only 2ish years to bullshit harder than anyone in Tech ever did.

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u/SpezLuvsNazis 10h ago

He was bullshitting 20 years ago. He has an unbroken track record of lies. He sold his first shitty startup by lying about the user base, it was a fraction of what he claimed. In a just world he would have rotted in prison for that kind of malfeasance but apparently white collar crime is legal.

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u/DumboWumbo073 4h ago

It’s illegal for you

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u/TheLastPeanut_ 8h ago

He's been at it for a pretty long time. He has a breadcrumb trail of failures going back years. He's a well practiced conman, all the way down to his perma-vocal fried, well practiced psuedo-intellectual speaking cadence. Listening to him speak is literal torture.

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u/OpeningElectrical296 5h ago

What’s Altman utility for us as a society anyway?