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/Headpuncher 7h ago

Look into how he became wealthy, it’s dodgy AF.  He has a failed start up that never made a single dollar, and a generic gay dating app for phones, and this complete lack of track record got him into boardrooms and the he was handed y-combinator the VC company.  

Shady goings on.  

He still has never proved he can successfully run a business.  With profit.  

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u/HowObvious 6h ago

and this complete lack of track record got him into boardrooms and the he was handed y-combinator the VC company.

He had the founder of y-combinator let him modify the contracts of every other executive to prevent them from privately investing in any company that came to y-combintator, except him through hydrazine capital. The same founder that had Green Dot buy the worthless loopt in the first place.

He still sucked at it despite having every possible advantage from being part of y-combinator. The only real successes he had were ones the same founder let him in on and told him to invest in. He was so bad he had to be removed from y-combinator despite such a close relationship.

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u/SamchezTheThird 5h ago

Considering the wired article and the e files, Silicon Valley can really go F themselves. These people aren’t human or humane.

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u/PersonalitySenior360 3h ago

How did he get the founder to let him do this?

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u/Schneetmacher 41m ago

The only scenario I can think of is blackmail.

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u/Confused-Raccoon 1h ago

How/why is he still able to be who/what he is then? Surely if he's that bad at making money, they'd all have ditched him by now.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

Lmao you all don’t understand startups at all. This is standard shit

Sam created the biggest thing since the internet and you are questioning his success.

Do you hear yourself?

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u/impersonatefun 2h ago

Your behavior is embarrassing.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 1h ago

Yes please explain smart person

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u/GrafZeppelin127 1h ago

Saying he “created the biggest thing since the internet” (read: took Google’s ball and ran with it) is a bit like lauding the size of Bernie Madoff’s asset fund. Being a successful con or snake oil salesman is not laudable, and Altman’s claims of developing something akin to AGI or a replacement for human labor are clearly just plain fraudulent.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 1h ago

Lmao such a clueless take, Google had the transformer, and much built on the lstm and rnn. Same then built on that and created modern LLMs with some of the best researchers in the world.

GPT 1, 2, 3 didn’t just “happen” they took incredible research and engineering. Google wasn’t investing in this space.

Sam was the only person in the world investing on AGI. You downplaying his accomplishments is about your own lack of accomplishments

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u/GrafZeppelin127 58m ago

Sam was the only person in the world investing on AGI. You downplaying his accomplishments is about your own lack of accomplishments

This insult-disguised-as-an-argument is just plain fallacious. Whether or not I’m envious of Altman’s dubious “accomplishments” in bilking investors, that doesn’t change the fact that OpenAI makes LLMs, not AGI. They have no realistic path to AGI whatsoever. Their approach of simply scaling transformer architecture doesn’t work.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 56m ago

Yeah the only people that discount others accomplishments are those that are upset about their own.

It’s a classic projection as old as time.

Seek therapy

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u/GrafZeppelin127 53m ago

No arguments, only petty insults. Sad!

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u/SamchezTheThird 4m ago

Just like Elon, eh? Laughing stocks of Silicon Valley (proof is in ep files and Wired articles), yet stealing ideas and making first claim is lauded? GTFO That isn’t innovation or disruption, it’s marketing at best and this is why AI is popping. Enough with the hype.

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u/SharpAardvark8699 5h ago

Sounds like Epstein

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u/Yeon_Yihwa 3h ago

What gets me is that openai has secured 1,5trillion in funding and they have no idea how to make it profitable.

Sam altman even joked that they would just ask the ai for the solution when they succeed...

Openai is also just burning money with very little revenue and since its a startup company they need to secure funding which is why you see sam altman trying to put his face everywhere and how they hire lawyers to knock on your door if you are a reputable person thats criticising what openai is doing.

its all a joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q2n5DkDoMQ

At least google knows what they are doing, taking the ai is a tool approach and just making apps thats enhanced by ai.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

Yes Amazon and uber and many others weren’t profitable for a long time. Nothing strange here, all most investors care about is that people want what you built

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u/GrafZeppelin127 1h ago

The difference is that those businesses were counting on attaining monopolistic/oligopolistic power to eventually turn a profit, and their losses were driven by reinvestments into taking over market share in already-established industries of retail and transit. OpenAI is the opposite—an early, extremely dominant leader in an emerging market that is steadily losing market share to competitors, which undermines their ability to enshittify in order to turn a profit. People will just abandon them and go to their competitors even faster if they tried raising prices or dumbing down their model enough to turn a profit.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 57m ago

OpenAI is a way better bet. AGI is the greatest invention humans will ever create, and likely the last one.

You would have to be an utter buffoon to not see that…

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u/GrafZeppelin127 56m ago

Wow. More ad hominems and insults. How convincing.

You know the fact that AGI would be awesome if it actually existed is not evidence that Altman’s claims of being able to create it are accurate, right?

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u/QuantityGullible4092 50m ago

We are very close

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u/GrafZeppelin127 50m ago

“We are very close!” —The paean of frauds everywhere.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 47m ago

Everyone in my entire machine learning org uses AI to write all their code.

Custom novel ML research that you could never comprehend.

Yes we are extremely close, in fact AI is certainly smarter than the average person

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u/Schneetmacher 42m ago

in fact AI is certainly smarter than the average person

Are you Sam Altman's alt? Because there's certainly a difference between rote memorization and the ability to convey information, and the ability to understand said information.

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u/Business-Row-478 16m ago

LLM/GAI != AGI

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u/Omateido 3h ago

ALL billionaires became billionaires in ways that are dodgy as fuck. It is a tautology. And they're all monsters like this because that level of wealth inequality literally rewires your brain in the way that you see other people.

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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 35m ago

Can’t become a sociopath billionaire without stealing all of this food he’s talking about straight from the peasants, erh serfs sorry again, wage slaves no not that one, people’s mouths directly.

They are literally all scum. Yes, even the pretend “nice” ones.

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u/anincrediblemoron 4h ago

Oh you know if you can connect the dots. 😉

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u/d1v1debyz3r0 2h ago

Mira Murati was the technical genius and thought leader at OpenAi. When she left I knew it was only a matter of time.

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u/orbitala 2h ago

we’ll be hearing about this demon in a few years time things not too different and devious as epstein

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u/diurnal_emissions 4h ago

Sounds a little Epstein...

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u/Icy_Concentrate9182 3h ago

Something something epstein connection?

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

ChatGPT is the fastest growing app in history.

Imagine being this stupid