Sam Altman, the high priest of Silicon Valley, told us this week that we shouldn’t complain about AI’s masive energy use because “humans consume a lot of energy too.”
In other words: stop whining, carbon-based peasants-your children are the real environmental problem. Do you know how much energy it takes to raise and educate one of those inefficient little mammals?
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/training-humans-vs-training-machines?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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