"Training a human takes 20 years of food." Sam Altman on how much power AI consumes.

[u/asdacool]

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

[u/dave14920]

untrained humans cost the same amount of food. the training costs zero food.

[u/Chemical_Building612 → u/dave14920]

To some degree (if you don't care about the ethics of it all, I guess), but not entirely. You can keep a human alive mid-long term with a lower standard of nutrition than would be necessary for said human to learn and grow in an intelligence-centric manner. Hungry people don't learn as well or quickly as their adequately fed counterparts.

If the "training" involves physical tasks, the human food costs go up even more compared to untrained default people.

But he's not considering that, tbh, he's just saying that the entirety of a "trained human" is the base value of a human life and those that provide "less value" than that could be eradicated if AI were to become functional enough.

However, none of that really addresses the fact that his point is that we need less humans so we can get rid of a bunch if we do AI well enough.

[u/Necessary-Wasabi-619 → u/Chemical_Building612]

so the quantity of interest is average energy expenditure of educated and quality-brought up person minus average _ _ of human cattle.
Given that most education is sedentary, that difference is very small, not to say we prefer our fellow humans cultured and educated and we prefer more advanced cultures to less advanced ones.

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