This would imply that AI data centers are somehow separate, and not just a further increment to the wastefulness of human existence, which is obvious nonsense.
He really goes out of his way to seem like a hack - you'd think he could get some coaching from his synthetic buddy or whatever.
Assuming his brain consumed the usual 20W, throughout his lifetime Einstein's grey matter would have gotten through about 4.6 billion Joules. Some napkin maths tells me ChatGPT consumes that much in about 2.8 milliseconds.
The first number is off by an order of magnitude or two, and your napkin math estimate is higher than humanity's entire power production. Are you a human?
Last I checked, yes I am indeed human. Are you implying I'm a language model because you think my maths is wrong?
Ok let's see, 20 Watts is 20 joules per second. Einstein was alive for about 75 years, so that's 75x365x24x60x60 seconds by 20 Joules per second which is 47,304,000,000 Joules.
So you are correct, I dropped an order of magnitude.
I’m thinking less and less about this guy. Gemini is good enough or better than ChatGPT for general purpose use. Codex is slow and rarely outperforms Claude code for my software work. How many billions or trillions is he in the hole again?
Sometimes when I read things like this I despair - AI could be game changing, targetting complex issues around health, genetics etc. Instead its deployed mainly in the continued transfer of wealth from the ordinary man to the billionaire classes. We're ripe for a 'French' style revolution.
Look on the bright side Silicon Valley is terrible at politics. We still live in a democracy and none of these tech bros have the charisma or debate skills to get their own mother to vote for them.
He really goes out of his way to seem like a hack - you'd think he could get some coaching from his synthetic buddy or whatever.
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