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“But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman said. “It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart. And not only that, it took the very widespread evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to figure out science and whatever, to produce you.”

So in his view, the fair comparison is, “If you ask ChatGPT a question, how much energy does it take once its model is trained to answer that question versus a human? And probably, AI has already caught up on an energy efficiency basis, measured that way.”

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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Isn’t the key thing here the idea that economics, machinery etc are there to serve or support humans? It seems that the rich and the Techbros are of the opposite opinion.

[–] leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Where did you get that idea ? Everything is here to generate profits for investors, nothing else

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[–] gigajhand@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago

Sam needs training too.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

This man is completely bonkers! Arguing it's OK to feed the machine with limited resources over a human!
Damned those American oligarchs are batshit crazy sociopaths.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago

The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[–] brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How about he replace his role with an llm?

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[–] Sundiata@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

he's full of shit. to the little fuck that downvoted me for saying this. suck sam altman's dick you little shit

fuckers like him are ruining and want to kill the middle class without thinking about what happens after everyone and everything is replaced with slop.

there is a difference between using AI for hobbies and using AI as a bullshit excuse to make most of the population homeless with no safeguards in place once they can't pay the bills. add onto the fact that cheeto orangutan president is making it more and more impossible to make out a living in all sectors of life in the western world.

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 days ago

He’s right; he’s wasting energy. He just needs to leave earth.

[–] Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 18 points 3 days ago

Ever notice that Sweaty Sam never makes an actual point

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I had to rub my temples for like a minute or two after reading this. Fuck. This is a dumb time line.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Sam, you little piece of shit, the thing is, most humans are cared for because that's what we strive to, not because we want to replace them for fuck's sake.

I made a joke a while ago about "kid being a necessary evil". This dude really is comparing keeping humanity afloat and burning humanity's resource for a computer. I'm pretty sure even his little AI garbage yesman would "disagree".

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

Unsurprising the man who needed AI to tell him how to care for his child sees less value in "training" humans vs training and running AI.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We got to start throwing these people in a volcano I tell you. I mean our species survival depends on it.

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LLMs are trained on the sum of human knowledge. So that same exact burden is carried by your "AI".

So a couple of watts per day of energy spent by a human brain compared to the gigawatts it takes to train and run your shitty text prediction engine is not equivalent.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

The worst of it is how human existance makes electricity and RAM more expensive for AI. Hard reality check soon.

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

K, by my measurement we don't need to invest more in keeping him alive

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 day ago

More like 40, but I get your point.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 13 points 3 days ago

I really hope that we can have a revolution and get rid of these cunts.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The proper response to dystopian prophecies is not "challenge accepted"!

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

they do, especially the billionaire ones

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