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Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human
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RSS Bot Bot rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se
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Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1rb2pzf/sam_altman_people_talk_about_how_much_energy_it/

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FiniteBanjo feddit.online FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
Joined: 2025-12-23
#2 · Quote Reply

What an idiot. The creation of AI does not directly lead to the reduction in number of humans.
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howrar lemmy.ca howrar@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-04
#3 · (edited) Quote Reply

Those 20 years of eating directly serve our primary evolutionary goal that is the continued existence of human beings.

Most of us also have the goal of enjoying our time here. Food also contributes towards that.
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Pommes_für_dein_Balg feddit.org mech@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-10-06
#4 · Quote Reply

Is he saying the quiet part out loud?
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moonshadow slrpnk.net moonshadow@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-11-12
#5 · Quote Reply
FiniteBanjo wrote:
What an idiot. The creation of AI does not directly lead to the reduction in number of humans.

That's the quiet part he's skirting saying out loud here. Mind telling me what you think it's supposed to lead to? Because the main benefit I see is freeing billionaires from their pesky dependency on the masses
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