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Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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“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.”

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[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

No, it's a real possibility.

Our species does not have a Moon base, we have barely touched Space in comparison to what we would need to do to thrive. There's a real possibility that our resources here will run out before we have a chance to become a space-faring race. We may be stuck here with finite resources and finite time.

Capitalism and excess currently runs world economics. It's not just one country, multiple countries worldwide consume to excess in both resources and production. If worldwide societies continue at this rate, how long do we as a species have until a real man-made extinction level event?

It's understandable why this is an important endeavor and why pretty much all countries and modern governments are prioritizing it (and for war ofc). LLMs and the pursuit of AI have the potential to outlast us should the worst come to pass, and it can be something we can hopefully, eventually send to space.