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BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 5 months ago

Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

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Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

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BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 5 months ago
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Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch
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"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."

“It also takes a lot of energy to train a human.”

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/

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    Call me when you can run AI on burritos.

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      do you eat burritos ? because we can make things that can eat burrito eaters:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot

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      You can skip a step and run a computer on sunlight.

      If you live in the right place you might already be doing so.

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      Note that dietary calories are kilocalories, so 2,000 calories of food is 2,000,000 calories from a physics standpoint.

      This issue goes away if you use the proper SI unit, the joule.

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      Whilst nothing you say here is wrong, humans have a tendency to want more things than machines. A place to live (perhaps a mansion with its own pool), transportation (maybe a private jet or a million dollar supercar) and other general recreation (such as a datacenter full of GPU’s hallucinating cartoons of scantily clad women). So really, a human is pretty energy intensive when you think about it, compared to their rather low number of working hours (eesh, sleep takes so much time).

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      Kilocalories are basically watt-hours. How many images do you think a kilowatt gaming rig can generate in two hours, versus a human being drawing all day long?

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    Training humans doesn’t destroy the planet, nor the hardware market, nor it raises electric bills for all citizens, nor it concentrates billions in the hands of a few individuals like you are doing with your company and all your brainwashing attempts.

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      Right, none of those things were happening until just now.

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    How would it know? Did it just look at the amount of robot fuel it used in a week and then compare?

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    Please inform him that I have no interest in what he thinks, and also remind him that he belongs in jail. Thank you.

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    What if we used the energy produced by the human body to power AIs?

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      We can start by burning Sam Altman’s to generate some electricity, but I still won’t interact with the fucking clankers.

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      Why didn’t i take the blue pill…?

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