“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.”
How about we do a life-cycle assessment instead.
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.
Yeah, that million years of evolution argument is just pitiful. Like, how is that compassion even supposed to work. Probably sounded better in his head.