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,…
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