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“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.
do you eat burritos ? because we can make things that can eat burrito eaters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot
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.
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).
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?
Yeah images is actually a bad example for us humans. Using a small model with a modern lora, you can generate near photorealistic images, easily 1 every second or so on moderate hardware.
Granted we can make 1 “perfect” image better than most big image models typically can even with lots of time, but thats a different discussion.
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.
Right, none of those things were happening until just now.
Good point.
Let’s turn off Sam to save energy.
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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?
I agree, in order to remain morally consistent we should remove all the most energy-intensive humans as well. Oh look, it’s the billionaires. Well, you guys had a good run, time to get in the pit
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…?
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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