You have probably heard that statistic that each search in Chatgpt uses the equivalent of a bottle of water. And although that is technically true, some of the nuances are lost.
The MIT Technology review reduced a massive report that reveals how the artificial intelligence industry uses energy, and exactly how much energy it costs to use a service as chatgpt.
The report determined that the energy cost of great language models such as Chatgpt costs from 114 joules for response to 6,706 joules for response, that is the difference between executing a microwave for an eight -to -eight bell. The lower energy models, according to the report, use less energy because they use less parameters, which also means that the answers tend to be less precise.
It makes sense, then, that the video produced by AI takes much more energy. According to the research of the MIT Technology Report, to create a five -second video, a NEOWER USA model “approximately 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high quality image.” That is the equivalent of executing a microwave for more than an hour.
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The researchers canceled the amount of energy that it would cost if alone, hypothetical, made a 15 -questions chatbot, asked for 10 images and three videos of five seconds. The answer? Approximately 2.9 Kilovatios-Hora of electricity, which is the equivalent of executing a microwave for more than 3.5 hours.
The research also examined the growing energy costs of the data centers that feed the AI industry.
The report found that before the advent of AI, the use of electricity of the data centers was largely flat thanks to greater efficiency. However, due to energy -intensive technology, the energy consumed by data centers in the United States has doubled since 2017. And according to government data, half of the electricity used by data centers will be used to feed AI tools by 2028.
This report comes at a time when people use generative for absolutely everything. Google announced in its annual I/O event that is leaning in AI with fervor. The search for Google, Gmail, Docs and Meet are seeing integrations of AI. People are using AI to direct work interviews, create deep fans just models and cheat at the university. And all that, according to this new in -depth report, has a fairly high cost.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable parent company, filed a lawsuit against Openai in April, claiming that he violated the copyright of Ziff Davis in the training and operation of his AI systems.
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