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| OpenAI CEO: Being courteous to ChatGPT is an expensive waste |
| 2025-04-21 |
| [Jpost] Sam Altman reveals that using polite language with chatbots like ChatGPT wastes millions of dollars in electricity and computing resources, urging a shift towards more efficient interactions. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company responsible for the artificial intelligence software, ChatGPT, revealed this week that courteous, polite behavior with chatbots, such as saying "please" and "thank you," costs millions of dollars in electricity and unnecessary computing activity. According to Altman, such politeness leads to a "global waste" that contributes to a tangible environmental impact. Saying "please" or "thank you" may seem trivial, but it requires the system to interpret, process, and craft a full response, sometimes for long, complex texts. Every such interaction consumes electricity and costly computing time in advanced data centers. |
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| #2 Kent? Is that you? |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2025-04-21 21:19 |
| #1 Think of it as preemptive brown nosing our future AI overlords whom I, for one, will welcome. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-04-21 04:27 |