This does misunderstand what actually costs the energy – it’s training the models that’s costly, not using the already trained ones. Although to be fair using them increases incentive for new ones to be trained… But yeah asking ChatGPT for a recipe idea isn’t burning an ounce of gasoline.
This does misunderstand what actually costs the energy – it’s training the models that’s costly, not using the already trained ones. Although to be fair using them increases incentive for new ones to be trained… But yeah asking ChatGPT for a recipe idea isn’t burning an ounce of gasoline.
Using them is also very energy intensive (though much less so than training).
Playing a AAA game amount of energy vs running an entire data center on full blast amount of energy, is the comparison I like to make.
While the order of magnitude is correct, running the bigger models is closer to playing a AAA game on 8 computers at the same time.