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.
I would just like to point out that when Altman dies, I will compare it to how many LLMs can now be trained on how to not be like Sam Altman .
Raising a child does not require the entire water supply of a mid-size city.