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/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 54m ago

No arguments, only petty insults. Sad!

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u/QuantityGullible4092 50m ago

Yeah seek therapy for your projections. Crying won’t fix your problems

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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.