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OpenAI Finally Reveals How Much Electricity ChatGPT Consumes
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed on Tuesday that an average ChatGPT query consumes about 0.34 watt-hours of electricity and 0.000085 gallons of water.
- This disclosure follows concerns that ChatGPT queries might use ten times more electricity than a typical Google search, which in 2011 required 0.3 watt-hours.
- Altman highlighted that smarter algorithms and automated chip production will reduce intelligence costs, while AI's energy demand could surpass Bitcoin mining next year.
- He pointed out that 0.34 watt-hours of electricity is comparable to just over one second of oven operation and stated that, over time, the expense associated with intelligence should approach the price of the electricity it consumes.
- Altman emphasized that as AI expands across society, reducing electricity costs and boosting supply remain critical to prevent power constraints on AI growth.
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According to the developer OpenAI, a request from the AI software ChatGPT consumes as much electricity as a second of oven operation. The water consumption per request is at one fifteenth of a teaspoon, wrote OpenAI boss Sam Altman in a blog entry. For years, there have been warnings of an escalating power requirement with wider use of applications with artificial intelligence. Even if individual requests due to efficiency gains in chip and serv…
Every Time You Ask ChatGPT Something, It Uses As Much Electricity As An Oven Does In One Second, Says Sam Altman: The 'Cost Of Intelligence' Will Only Lower
OpenAI CEO Altman claims ChatGPT uses 0.34 watt-hours of electricity and 0.000085 gallons of water per query, positioning it as a frugal choice amid concerns about AI's environmental impact.
AI data centers are hungry for electricity. However, every single request does not require much, stresses the head of the ChatGPT developer.
In a romantic treatise on the alleged imminent singularity, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentions an interesting fact about the energy consumption of ChatGPT: A single ChatGPT request consumes an average of 0.34 watt hours of electricity. The article A single ChatGPT request consumes as much energy as Google Search 2009 first appeared on THE-DECODER.de.
ChatGPT, the most widely used AI assistant in the world, became indispensable in March, after the platform servers broke down. The defect occurred just when in many countries there were final exams of the year.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman clarifies: A request with the AI software ChatGPT eats enormous amounts of electricity. Water consumption is also high.
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