"As datacenter production gets automated, the cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity. (People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes. It also uses about 0.000085 gallons of water; roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.)"
I think all of this “you burnt a tree to configure your keyboard” kind of stuff is just plain old virtue signalling.
We should be celebrating that you got something done quickly that might have otherwise taken a very long time!
"As datacenter production gets automated, the cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity. (People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes. It also uses about 0.000085 gallons of water; roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.)"
I read this from Sam Altman's last blog after I wrote this post: https://blog.samaltman.com
Yes, I feel they should have! Or at least accepted that an answer was found, regardless of how it was found.