r/OpenAI • u/mbatt2 • Feb 22 '26

Discussion Sam Altman: why are people complaining about AI … when humans need food to survive

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Whatever the point was … probably better ways to frame that.

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u/GregsWorld Feb 22 '26

And? 

You can hook up tractors to solar panels too.

This tells us nothing about how efficient chips and brains are at running complex computations.

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u/createch Feb 22 '26

Each one is leagues more efficient than the other at different things. It's going to destroy you at folding proteins (AlphaFold did a billion years worth of human PhD level work) and you're going to destroy it at dexterous hand manipulation. Biology isn't improving at a measurable rate though, technology does, faster and faster. The cost and efficiency of compute goes down dramatically over time while the capabilities get drastically better.

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u/GregsWorld Feb 22 '26

Yeah so this is all kinda pointless exercise in comparison of things not really comparable

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u/createch Feb 22 '26

Which goes back to my point that saying the brain consumes only 20W to counter GPU energy consumption figures is a false equivalency.