By Erick There are many things AI cannot and will not comprehensively be able to do for a long time:
- Love
- Drive a car (no, autonomous vehicles don’t count)
- Work hard to pay off family debt (AI spends money not makes money)
- Take my dog for a walk
- Cook
- Exercise and lose weight
- Take care of a loved one when they are sick
- Answer life’s biggest questions (no, don’t ask ChatGPT)
- Tell my son they’re proud of me (and mean it)
- Protest the enshittification of society
- Rate movies genuinely on IMDB
- Play Bethoven’s fifth live – and applaud at the end of the stunning performance
- Much more
So when AI fake-overlord Sam Altman says the following – in India no less – where is his humanity?
Altman said that many discussions around ChatGPT’s energy usage were unfair because they tend to focus on “how much energy it takes to train an AI model, relative to how much it costs a human to do one inference query.”
“But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. 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,” he said.
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He’ll do anything to justify single-handedly making electronics more expensive for all of us.