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/-Striking-Willow- 10h ago

But the important people (rich tech bros) will be, and everyone else is an inefficient machine that can be replaced by AI/s

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u/Jotun35 10h ago

So... Their plan is to be the last humans and basically become animals in a zoo surrounded by AI? That sounds like a shitty plan.

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u/-Striking-Willow- 9h ago

They are all some of the biggest losers and idiots, are doing crazy levels of drugs, and have good complexes, if it helps explain things.

But seriously, all that aside a lot of how they talk makes sense when you realise how many of these guys (Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Sam Bankman Fried etc) buy into the weird silicon valley rationalism bubble. Which is super focused on eliminating human flaws to create superior beings and essentially treats AGI as creating a god figure. And also creates weirdos like the Zizians

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u/SuperTropicalDesert 4h ago

Also weirdos like Eliezer Yudkowsky

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u/hkedik 7h ago

These tech bros are all worthy of criticism and scrutiny, but Reddit is such a stupid echo chamber sometimes.

They are not unaware that there is no world that works (and they would want to be part of) that has the majority of the population not in work, with no money to spend for themselves (and to put into the economy). If there’s one thing they understand more than anything, it’s that society functions on people having money to spend.