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ChatGPT may not be as power-hungry as once assumed
ChatGPT may not be as power-hungry as once assumed. But it largely depends on how it's being used, and the AI models that are answering the queries.
“The energy use is really not a big deal compared to using normal appliances or heating or cooling your home, or driving a car,” Joshua You, the data analyst at Epoch who conducted the analysis, told TechCrunch. OpenAI’s attention — along with the rest of the AI industry’s — is also shifting to so-called reasoning models, which are generally more capable in terms of the tasks they can accomplish, but require more computing to run. You suggested that people worried about their AI energy footprint use apps such as ChatGPT infrequently, or select models that minimize the computing necessary — to the extent that’s realistic.
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