> It costs $700,000 per day in energy costs to run ChatGPT 3.5, according to recent estimates, and leaves behind a massive carbon footprint in the process.
Compared to what? I wouldn't defend LLMs as "worth their electricity" quite yet, and they are definitely less efficient than a lot of other software, but I'd still like to see how this compares to gaming consoles, or email servers, the advertising industry hosting costs, cryptocurrency, and so on. Just doesn't seem worth pointing out the carbon footprint of AI just yet.
Compared to what? I wouldn't defend LLMs as "worth their electricity" quite yet, and they are definitely less efficient than a lot of other software, but I'd still like to see how this compares to gaming consoles, or email servers, the advertising industry hosting costs, cryptocurrency, and so on. Just doesn't seem worth pointing out the carbon footprint of AI just yet.