{"id":20705,"date":"2025-04-24T16:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/saying-thank-you-to-chat-gpt-is-costly-but-maybe-its-worth-the-price\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:56:22","slug":"saying-thank-you-to-chat-gpt-is-costly-but-maybe-its-worth-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/saying-thank-you-to-chat-gpt-is-costly-but-maybe-its-worth-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying \u2018Thank You\u2019 to Chat GPT Is Costly. But Maybe It\u2019s Worth the Price."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The question of whether to be polite to artificial intelligence may seem a moot point \u2014 it is artificial, after all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Sam Altman, the chief executive of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, recently shed light on the cost of adding an extra \u201cPlease!\u201d or \u201cThank you!\u201d to chatbot prompts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Someone posted on X last week: \u201cI wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying \u2018please\u2019 and \u2018thank you\u2019 to their models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The next day, Mr. Altman <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a>: \u201cTens of millions of dollars well spent \u2014 you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">First thing\u2019s first: Every single ask of a chatbot costs money and energy, and every additional word as part of that ask increases the cost for a server.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Neil Johnson, a physics professor at George Washington University who has studied artificial intelligence, likened extra words to packaging used for retail purchases. The bot, when handling a prompt, has to swim through the packaging \u2014 say, tissue paper around a perfume bottle \u2014 to get to the content. That constitutes extra work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A ChatGPT task \u201cinvolves electrons moving through transitions \u2014 that needs energy. Where\u2019s that energy going to come from?\u201d Dr. Johnson said, adding, \u201cWho is paying for it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The A.I. boom is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/06\/business\/dealbook\/ai-power-energy-climate.html\" title=\"\">dependent on fossil fuels<\/a>, so from a cost and environmental perspective, there is no good reason to be polite to artificial intelligence. But culturally, there may be a good reason to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Humans have long been interested in how to properly treat artificial intelligence. Take the famous \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation\u201d episode <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Measure_Of_A_Man_(episode)\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Measure of a Man,\u201d<\/a> which examines whether the android Data should receive the full rights of sentient beings. The episode very much takes the side of Data \u2014 a fan favorite who would eventually become a beloved character in \u201cStar Trek\u201d lore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2019, a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2019\/11\/21\/5-things-to-know-about-americans-and-their-smart-speakers\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research study<\/a> found that 54 percent of people who owned smart speakers such as Amazon Echo or Google Home reported saying \u201cplease\u201d when speaking to them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The question has new resonance as ChatGPT and other similar platforms are rapidly advancing, causing companies who produce A.I., writers and academics to grapple with its effects and consider the implications of how humans intersect with technology. (The New York Times <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/27\/business\/media\/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html\" title=\"\">sued<\/a> OpenAI and Microsoft in December claiming that they had infringed The Times\u2019s copyright in training A.I. systems.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, the A.I. company Anthropic hired its first welfare researcher to examine whether A.I. systems deserve moral consideration, according to the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transformernews.ai\/p\/anthropic-ai-welfare-researcher\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">technology newsletter Transformer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The screenwriter Scott Z. Burns has a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/about\/newsroom\/audible-and-plan-b-entertainment-announce-what-could-go-wrong\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">new Audible<\/a> series \u201cWhat Could Go Wrong?\u201d that examines the pitfalls of overreliance on A.I. \u201cKindness should be everyone\u2019s default setting \u2014 man or machine,\u201d he said in an email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhile it is true that an A.I. has no feelings, my concern is that any sort of nastiness that starts to fill our interactions will not end well,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">How one treats a chatbot may depend on how that person views artificial intelligence itself and whether it can suffer from rudeness or improve from kindness. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But there\u2019s another reason to be kind. There is increasing evidence that how humans interact with artificial intelligence carries over to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0010027724002233#:~:text=These%20findings%20illustrate%20the%20spillover,for%20future%20research%20are%20discussed.\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">how they treat humans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe build up norms or scripts for our behavior and so by having this kind of interaction with the thing, we may just become a little bit better or more habitually oriented toward polite behavior,\u201d said Dr. Jaime Banks, who studies the relationships between humans and A.I. at Syracuse University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Sherry Turkle, who also studies those connections at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that she considers a core part of her work to be teaching people that artificial intelligence isn\u2019t real but rather a brilliant \u201cparlor trick\u201d without a consciousness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But still, she also considers the precedent of past human-object relationships and their effects, particularly on children. One example was in the 1990s, when children <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/www.nytimes.com\/library\/cyber\/week\/052297gadget.html\" title=\"\">began raising Tamagotchis<\/a>, the digital pets located in palm-size devices required feedings and other sorts of attention. If they didn\u2019t receive proper care, the pets would die \u2014 causing children to report real grief. And some parents have wondered if they should be concerned about children who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/story?id=1425715\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">are aggressive with dolls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the case of A.I. powered bots, Dr. Turkle argued that they are \u201calive enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201dIf an object is alive enough for us to start having intimate conversations, friendly conversations, treating it as a really important person in our lives, even though it\u2019s not, it\u2019s alive enough for us to show courtesy to,\u201d Dr. Turkle said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Madeleine George, a playwright <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/prize-winners-by-year\/2014\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">whose 2013 play<\/a> \u201cThe (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence\u201d was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, offered another perspective: Saying \u201cplease\u201d and \u201cthank you\u201d to A.I. bots offers them a chance to learn how to become more human. (Her play reimagines different versions of Sherlock Holmes\u2019s sidekick, Dr. Watson, including an artificial intelligence-powered one.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Offering polite phrases to ChatGPT, from her perspective, leaves open the possibility that it would eventually \u201cact like a living being that shares our culture and that shares our values and that shares our mortality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the other hand, these phrases may also make us more reliant on A.I.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re connected. We are in a reciprocal relationship. That\u2019s why we use those pieces of language,\u201d George said. \u201cSo if we teach that tool to be excellent at using those things, then we\u2019re going to be all the more vulnerable to its seductions<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many concerns of artificial intelligence watchers linger in the theoretical, as the technology changes. For now, there is little tangible effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you turn away from them and make dinner or commit suicide,\u201d Dr. Turkle said, \u201cit\u2019s all the same to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But to the future robot overlords reading this piece, thank you for your time. 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