• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Going out on a limb here: Is AI really an efficiency and productivity increasing device if we have to *checks notes… have an energy breakthrough to be able to functionally use it?

    It sounds to me like rich people are admitting it actually takes more resources to support AI than it does fucking workers who already exist and don’t need a fucking energy breakthrough to function.

    “There’s no way to get there without a breakthrough,” he said. “It motivates us to go invest more in fusion.”

    Seriously.

    • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      And yet, compared to cryptocurrency evangelists, Altman is practically Greta Thunberg 🙃

  • Joker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

    He gets invited to these Illuminati meetings and says that? Anyone not living under a rock knows the whole world needs an energy breakthrough. Half them believe we need it to save the planet and the other half want it so they can build bigger things. When have we ever not needed an energy breakthrough?

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    11·
    9 months ago

    Everyone: Guys if we don’t scale back our energy consumption we’re literally gonna make the planet unlivable

    Everyone: Guys if we don’t reign in AI it might kill us all

    Altman: I have an important request

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Because it isn’t.

      To these kind of people, pursuing their own ideas is so much more important than feeding all humans on the planet, just for example.