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OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill

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. — Read the rest The post OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill appeared first on Boing Boing.

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