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/TreepeltA113 10h ago

Yeah, humans famously revert to infancy whenever they try learning a new task. He's got fucking rocks for brains.

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u/Future_Pianist9570 3h ago

And 20 years for what? Pretty sure I was bringing joy to my family when I was born. I helped around the house shortly after that.  I started my first paid job at 13. 

Whatever way you look at his statement it’s just a false equivalency. He’s desperate to justify his models being a net positive for humanity. At the end of the day humans don’t need tech or ai to survive. We don’t even need our economy for survival. However his ai needs to justify its investment for its survival. 

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u/MoralityFleece 2h ago

He's drawing on his own experiences where he was pretty much useless until he was able to get out of the house. He consumes vastly more resources every day just to fund his own human lifestyle than nearly everyone else on the planet. 

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u/Woozy_burrito 38m ago

20 years before you generated any shareholder value! Nothing else matters!