A recent example of this kind of talk came last month from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who was defending his company from criticism that training AI models takes huge amounts of energy. Responding to an interviewer from The Indian Express , Altman said: "One of the things that is always unfair in this comparison is that people talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model relative to how much it costs a human to do one inference query. But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human.