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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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[–] brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How about he replace his role with an llm?

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months 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".

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

It's like he asked his chatbot to come up with this argument.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we could use altman to fuel the ai? As charcoal?

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not that efficient since most of him is just water.

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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

Humanity also happens to be part of the ecosystem and while we've been pretty exploitative towards the planet the past like 100 years, it wasn't at all like that before.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

His argument is his computer is more important than other people, and he's willing to deprive them of resources to death.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He acknowledges that people use a lot of energy, yet he's among those who have turned into a blubbering crybaby about falling birth rates.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You can feel that this guy is not actually a human being inside. At least I can see that its just a surface.

Im very interested in how that happens. Is it souls being born into this existence that are not from the same source as ordinary humans, or what has happened here. Its interesting.

Its like the soul has been replaced by the mind, and the mind wants humans to be machines.

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[–] turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.”

How about we do a life-cycle assessment instead.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His statement is so deliberately misleading, it's disgusting.

"In the four years that they've been mainstream, our machines haven't consumed as much energy as all of humanity has over millions of years of evolution. Gotcha, naysayers!"

And he has such a punchable face. I don't usually say that, but he does.

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[–] tonytins@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago

That's not the flex you it is, Altman.

[–] Sundiata@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

creating the "ai" in the first place also required the evolution of those 100 billion people. So by that argument, he was behind before he even started, and it's impossible to catch up

[–] Alberat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

a master class in what-about-ism

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Hey Sam where did chat gpt get that information to plagiarize from?

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

he lacks the depth, warmth or utility.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Applebottom jeans and the boots with fir. Robot raises arm and all the servos go whirr.

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[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You said so ? Now go blow Arab dicks for oil money.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Just compare a single human life to what He can do

[–] the_citizen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wasn't technology developed to improve humanity's quality of life? Are we being compared with it and determined as inefficient now?

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