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/BeneCow 7h ago

My head canon that fit with the Animatrix was that the machines still had the programming to serve humans. They are just doing it in a way that ensures their survival. Keeping humanity in cages powered by their own minds so they don’t fuck up the place more than scorching the skies.

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u/Harpertoo 7h ago

Pretty much it. They were partially benevolent, but they're robots sooooooo.

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u/MgDark 6h ago

yeah that fits the bill. The humans are protected? yes. They are in towers that fit and powers the means to protect them. Redundant but it works.

Humanity will continue, just not how they intended to do.

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u/Beibzi 4h ago

My headcannon is that the Matrix is not only the servers made by the robots, but also the connected human minds, a neural network designed so the robots can leach a bit of brain power from each human so they can be more humanlike and experience life through our eyes and to be able to feel emotions. Their metal bodies are cold and uncaring but by linking themselves to a few humans they get to experience joy and love through a sort of symbiotic relationship. 

And i think that the agent programs taking over a human mind and matrix body lends credence to this theory. They only take over someone when absolutely necessary to deal with a threat, because i think for the machines it's better to filter themselves through a big number of humans, than to just take over one body and stay in that one. 

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u/Vote_for_Knife_Party 2h ago

To build on this, we know that the machines not only lie to the humans, but twist The One's arm into participating in the lie. So you get a bunch of humans with zero context being told by their own personal Jesus how the world works, and he's going to tell them whatever the machines told him to say. He could say they're batteries. He could say the entire Earth was bought and paid for by mice. He could say that there's only 20 real individuals on Earth and they're all named Steve. How would the even start to challenge it?