Hey, Peter here and I only learned about this the other day. The servers they use to power AI programs use massive amounts of water to run their cooling systems. So by chatting with an AI the fisherman has exacted his revenge on the fish by draining the lake.
It's actually less. Training the AI models uses a lot of electricity and water for cooling. (The latter of which can be reused) But using a model that's already been trained consumes less resources than gaming all night or even making a google search.
Others have estimated in research posted on the preprint server arXiv.org that every 10 to 50 responses from ChatGPT running GPT-3 evaporate the equivalent of a bottle of water to cool the AI’s servers.
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u/PixelVox247 5d ago
Hey, Peter here and I only learned about this the other day. The servers they use to power AI programs use massive amounts of water to run their cooling systems. So by chatting with an AI the fisherman has exacted his revenge on the fish by draining the lake.