More Robotic Than the Robots

[I’m not sure ChatGPT could come up with an argument this inhuman.]
Today in out-of-touch billionaires, it’s OpenAI’s Sam Altman talking about the resource usage of A.I.:

“One of the things that is always unfair in this comparison is people talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” he said. “It takes like 20 years of life, and all the food you eat before that time, before you get smart.”

Ah, sure, yes, that’s a very interesting comparison. I wonder exactly how the numbers shake out vis-à-vis the energy used in training A.I. vs. raising a child to adulthood. I also wonder if Sam Altman realizes that “training humans” is rather the point of our existence.

Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/openai-altman-defends-ai-resource-usage-water-concerns-fake-humans-use-energy-summit.html