Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."
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Call me when you can run AI on burritos.
do you eat burritos ? because we can make things that can eat burrito eaters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot
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.
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).
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.
Good point.
Let's turn off Sam to save energy.
How would it know? Did it just look at the amount of robot fuel it used in a week and then compare?
Please inform him that I have no interest in what he thinks, and also remind him that he belongs in jail. Thank you.
What if we used the energy produced by the human body to power AIs?
We can start by burning Sam Altman's to generate some electricity, but I still won't interact with the fucking clankers.
Why didn't i take the blue pill..?