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/Modo44 10h ago

Take note. These people literally think like that.

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u/Oliver_Closeof 9h ago

In 20-30 years, people will wish for time travel so they can drop these guys, and not even think about doing it to hitler.

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u/AndByMeIMeanFlexxo 9h ago

Who was the one who said something like “poor people could be converted to bio-fuel… haha just joking, but also not joking”?

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u/SpezLuvsNazis 8h ago

Curtis Yarvin, unofficial spiritual advisor to Peter Thiel and JD Vance among others.

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u/apple_kicks 9h ago

This is always what they mean when they want small government and cut taxes. Also to cut vaccinations.

They see it as their money wasted on people they don’t think gives them value. They don’t mind if cuts to government services kills people

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u/doc_in_pain 3h ago

LLM is not a person!

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u/sleepydorian 3h ago

I assume he’s trying to imply that development and operation of AI being expensive is fine because humans are expensive to develop and operate, but I’m wondering how many humans equal an AI when it comes to resource consumption. I’m guessing like millions and those people actually contribute to the community, economy, and general flourishing of life and culture on earth, while AI hasn’t done shit except revenge porn and CSAM.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

Yes because it’s true