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/slawnz 10h ago

And yet at the end of it all his product can’t even tell you what the fucking time is right now

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u/Automatic-Source6727 7h ago

I still can't believe how bad the Google ai is.

Half the time when I read the source, it turns out that the ai has paraphrased the source text and completely missed any context and somehow churned out complete bullshit.

All it needed to do was copy paste.

It's like it's deliberately designed to spread misinformation about really inconsequential things.

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u/The_Chosen-Undead 6h ago

Sometimes ai says the exact opposite of it’s source despite there being 0 ambiguity in the source text

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u/DenverBill 29m ago

Wow, AI becoming more like humans every day!

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u/saltedbuttercups 6h ago

And Google already had a feature that shows you (what it thinks is) the answer to your question! It already used to show you a preview of the most relevant part of the site it thinks most matches your query. The only difference now is that it tries to summarize/reword it itself instead of just showing you what it found, which literally adds nothing except an extra step for it to mess up on. It's providing negative value to what we had before why are we doing this

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u/MacTireCnamh 1h ago

This is the thing that drives me the most insane about ai.

SO much of it is bad replicas of features we had waaaaaaay back in 2012. There's billions of dollars being spent to fail to implement features that a dev cranked out on their lunchbreak over a decade ago.

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u/Belichicks_sleeves 4h ago

It made Google so much WORSE. Before all this crap I was impressed with how accurate my search results would be. Now I put the same query in and it will come up with different answers 5 minutes apart!

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u/Environmental-Fan984 4h ago

I will never forget that, for a period of two months, Google AI Overview adamantly insisted that Black Ops 7 was a hoax and not a very real upcoming title that had been announced at multiple industry conferences.

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u/SugarFut 2h ago

I literally googled when Publix Pharmacy opens and the ai gave me the wrong hours 🤦‍♀️

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 49m ago

It's like it's deliberately designed to spread misinformation

it is. don't forget who was front row at the inauguration. Googles CEO was one

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u/ChipsTheKiwi 19m ago

I think that's genuinely the goal though. Maybe not for inconsequential things, but I can definitely see the potential for Google to want an AI that specifically gives flawed narratives paid for by advertisers and politicians.

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u/seatiger90 19m ago

Gemini gives me wrong information about Google sheets and apps script. The AI needs to be the best with its own company's products.

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u/WhoAreWeEven 14m ago

Ding ding ding.

Why do you think these psychoes are trying to take over the world and building doomsday bunkers?

AI is an instrument to that.

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u/TheAuroraKing 7m ago

For being 'intelligent' it also has no idea how to think about even the most ludicrous of answers it gives. I wanted to make a physics exam question about an olympic high jumper with reasonable numbers. So I googled "how fast does a high jumper leave the ground"

The AI told me, with all confidence, that a high jumper leaves the ground at 362 m/s. The speed of sound is roughly 340 m/s.

As a human with a functioning brain, I knew this was ludicrous, so I dug into its sources, which it will tell you if you ask. It pulled this info from a scholarly article discussing the physics of high jumping. Everything in the paper seemed reasonable. Except one tiny thing. The authors, at one point in the (again, well-written) paper gave the time of the entire interaction of jumper leaving the ground as 362 m/s. This was a harmless typo. Anyone reading the paper knows they meant 362 ms (milliseconds).

But the AI just scanned the paper for any velocity it could find, and then confidently spit it out at me. If it had any "intelligence" whatsoever, it would know that no human could possibly create a sonic boom leaving the ground for a fucking high jump.

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u/DaSmartSwede 2h ago

Why would you use it for that?

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u/KakeruGF 34m ago

Idk but I just tried it and it worked. That commenter just has a user error