Sam Altman gets defensive about AI’s massive electricity usage: ‘It also takes a lot of energy to train a human’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn’t worried about AI’s increasingly glaring resource consumption, and argued humans require a lot too. 

In an on-stage interview at the India AI Impact summit, he went on the defensive after he was asked about ChatGPT’s water needs.

He dismissed claims that the chatbot uses gallons of water per query as “completely untrue, totally insane,” according to a clip posted by The Indian Express, explaining that data centers powering ChatGPT have largely moved...