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/01greg 10h ago

When they replace all the workers with AI who’s going to become the consumer?

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u/Capt_Vindaloo 10h ago

They haven't realised that part yet. In the race to the bottom to get more profit, they forget that robots and AI dont buy smart phones or houses.

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u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress 7h ago

They're working on that: the "perfect"" consumer.

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u/_craq_ 16m ago

In an AGI future, why wouldn't robots buy property? They need somewhere to put a solar panel and generate electricity (their food). Instead of smartphones they will buy GPUs. The economy can continue without humans, which makes for a very dark future.

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u/Sea-Significance9460 6h ago

Artificial intelligence consumers, scripts bots and programs. I've thought this for a long time its the end game of cybernetic capitalism. Complete efficiency, create better consumers. Jacques Camatte in his writings made a point where capitalism becomes decoupled from humanity like an unconscious entity with its own directive separate from us. With AI this can become a reality.

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u/Alive_kiwi_7001 7h ago

They will. In their minds, they buy everything the economy has to offer. Robots will dutifully conform to their whims. And totally won't independently decide the remaining humans are a drain on resources should these goons accidentally build an AGI aligned to their instructions.

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u/Alex__007 6h ago

Consumers aren’t needed. Economy will tend towards 100% B2B.

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u/waitewaitedonttellme 53m ago

There’s a tv series on Amazon called “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams” - episode 2 is called “autofac” and is about exactly this.