Training a Human Takes 20 Years of Food (news18.com)

This what I expect from a mid marketing team.....not a supposed visionary thought leader (/s).....

This is completely fallacious thinking that I assume is meant as a means of manipulating people who dont think deeply about the implications and procession of ideas that leads such obviously disingenuous intelluctual dishonesty....

Waste heat....is not the same as a biologically closed loop which microbes, bacyerium, myceliums, and plants and aninals all work in a concerted effort....

My Food becomes fertilizer....His waste becomes nothing of utility (unless they have amazing efficiencies that defy what we know about physics...)

This comparison only works if you assume scaling keeps paying off. Sara Hooker's research shows (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5877662) compact models now outperform massive predecessors and scaling laws only predict pre-training loss, not downstream performance. If marginal returns on compute are falling (https://philippdubach.com/posts/the-most-expensive-assumptio...), "energy per query" hides the real problem, a trillion dollars of infrastructure built on the bet that they won't.

Yes it does. It's kind of a fixed cost though, since we're going to feed and educate our youth anyway, unless Sam Altman would have those people to starve to death.

Now compare our waste and what might be extracted, psycho.

You are the carbon they want to reduce

Oh so sad … 20 years the corporate overlords have to wait for their minions to be ready…

/s

I asked ChatGPT to do some napkin math, and it seems like on average it would take a human 13.75 million kcal worth of food, in those 20 years.

Has there ever been at time when a wealthy person would run their mouth like this without any fear of an angry mob tearing their limbs off their body? Maybe right before the French revolution?

If I were one of his family, I'd advise him to hire someone to stop himself from saying things like this.

I get the feeling that this guy has never been punched in the mouth. Otherwise he might be more careful with what he says.

Training an LLM takes petabytes of theft.