Your courtesy can be expensive for openai

“I wonder how much money has lost Openai in the cost of electricity from people who say” please “and” thank you “to their models.”

It was a random question Posed by a user of X (before Twitter) but Openai CEO Sam Altman jump to answer This introduction of these words has added “tens of millions of dollars, well spent – you never know.”

Judging by the tone of the language in Altman’s cheek, it is probably safe to assume that he has not made an accurate calculation. But his answer prompted futurism speculate if it is actually a waste of time And electricity should be polite for chat and other generative AI chatbots.

Obviously, being polite to AI is not just an unnecessary habit, wrongly put anthropomorphism or fear of our future computer masters. instead, Kurt Beats, Director of the Microsoft Copilot design team, said The fact that “the use of a polite language sets the tone for the answer” and that when the AI ​​model “clocks of courtesy” is more likely to be a polite back. “

That’s what he said, Profitability has its usesalso.