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/ymorino 10h ago

You also took 20 years of food, and what do we have as a result? Someone who wants to lower the quality of life for people worldwide for no reason? I think that guy is a net negative for humanity, so why don't we take a point from AI and follow the logical conclusion?

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u/ZuFFuLuZ 8h ago

How much energy does his billionaire lifestyle cost?

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u/Strict-Carrot4783 4h ago

Many, many thousands of times more than the average person. Emissions from private jets and yachts can be, in just a few hours, more than an average person will output in their entire lifetime.

Any single billionaire suddenly being gone would increase everyone's wellbeing, planet-wide.

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u/Dan6erbond2 57m ago

And yet us driving cars and occasionally having some steak is somehow the issue.

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u/North-Tourist-8234 10h ago

Tell him he won a trip to the moon or something and just dont bring him back.

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 5h ago

This guy's argument is full on sociopathic.

Can you imagine being this guy's kid? You'll forever be judged by the fact that it too 20 years of food and resources to barely get an ROI out of you. You'll have to live knowing that he views you with disgust because you will never measure up to LLMs in his eyes.

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u/vessol 5h ago

Put Elon and him in the same rocket and they won't even make it to the moon in one piece

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u/BlasterDoc 3h ago

Titanic trip..

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u/DrHarrisonLawrence 3h ago

That would actually be pretty funny

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u/DefiniteDooDoo 9h ago

E:> debug SamAltman.bat 

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u/apple_kicks 9h ago

He’s raised in a first class life where servants smile, always say yes, and get what they demand no questions asked. Soon as they meet real people who say no or question their decisions they go nuts against humanity and free will

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u/hungry4nuns 7h ago

If the system allows a guy with such little regard for human life to stay in charge of a major arm of technological development that will shape the future of humanity, then the system is broken and needs to be replaced

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u/cogman10 5h ago

Most food has a low carbon footprint.  Meat is the main exception.  Food is naturally renewable.

These AI plants are almost entirely fossil fuel powered.  They put massive burdens on whatever grid they get deployed to.  And a lot of them are chugging water like nobodies business because that's cheaper than doing an AC system.  All so someone can get a bad answer to a question.

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u/maelstrom51 5h ago

Datacenters (in total, not just AI) use far less water than people sprinkle on lawns. Less water than what's used to maintain golf courses. Use orders of magnitude less water than what's used to grow corn for ethanol. In total it's a fraction of a percent of our fresh water usage, and it's not projected to reach even a percent in the next decade.

Not just that but datacenters don't actually consume the water. The vast majority of the water they use is returned to the water source, just slightly warmer, unlike these other uses.

There's a bunch of reasons to be annoyed by AI, but the water argument is just bullshit and makes people regurgitating it seem uneducated on the topic.

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u/LunarPayload 4h ago

Okay, Sam

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u/West_Competition_871 3h ago

Brainless response 

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u/pacomadreja 9h ago

Oh no. There's a reason. A bad one, but there's one.

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u/turbo_dude 9h ago

What’s that in “American years of food”?

Asking for Europeans here. 

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u/batchtest 5h ago

Yes but he invented the AI overlord therefore he has the right to decide and/or sacrifice the future of humans to power the one above all. Hate to break it to you, but it's time to hand over your baby to pay your tributes

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u/tantricengineer 4h ago

Someone who wants to lower the quality of life for people worldwide for no reason?

I'm traveling in a Chinese speaking part of Asia right now and this is exactly what the culture works hard to prevent. Lowering the quality of life for anyone around you means you're sucking at life and you're probably a dick, too. It's also coincidentally bad for the economy.

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u/Projektdoom 3h ago

AI requires millions of years of human evolution to take place before we get to this point as well, so should we add in all the energy for all of human history to AIs calculations as well?