OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill
Sam Altman on the meaning of life is pretty rough.
On again off again OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who famously claimed he could not raise a child without AI, now sums up the meaning of life as the carbon footprint of training an LLM. Altman compared 20 years of growth, learning, scraped knees, and bedtime stories to the electricity bill for training a large language model, concluding that people are basically very slow, snack-powered neural networks.
Sam Altman clearly had a really wonderful childhood.
No need to wonder if he thinks human cognition and awareness is anything special.
"be4 u get smrt!" I bet if you added up all the calories it takes for 20 years of life it wouldn't power 20 seconds of LLM training.