OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted GPT-4 "kind of sucks," and now we learn the AI model consumes up to 3 water bottles to generate a mere 100 words
By Kevin Okemwa,
2024-09-20
What you need to know
A new study indicates OpenAI's GPT-4 AI model consumes up to 3 water bottles to generate 100 words.
This is amid the rising concern of sufficient power supply to foster sophisticated AI advances in the landscape.
Microsoft and OpenAI have been spotted exploring new avenues to avert these critical issues, including constructing new data centers and raising funds for more power supply.
OpenAI has made significant advances and progress in AI since launching ChatGPT in 2022 . While the AI-powered chatbot created a lot of buzz, potentially reshaping every aspect of our lives, it shipped with several critical issues, including hallucination episodes of generating wrong responses to prompts and queries.
Per the University of California study, the amount of water consumed to generate AI responses to queries depends on the state and proximity to the data center. To put this in perspective, Texas reported the lowest water usage, estimated at 235 milliliters per every 100 words. On the other hand, Washington consumed the largest amount of water, translating to 1,408 milliliters for every 100 AI-generated words.
Has no one heard of water cooling systems for a computers tower??? Im being dead ass. No one??? Btw, who wrote this article is extremely shitty at writing professionally when speaking computer lingo. Absolutely shitty.
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