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How much energy consumption is involved in Chat GPT responses being generated?

Sam Altman states "probably single-digits cents" thus worst case 0,09€/request. I guess a least half the cost are energy at a cost of 0,15€/1kWh, a request would cost 0,09€/request*50%/0,...
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How much energy consumption is involved in Chat GPT responses being generated?

Thanks for the tip @Yoric! (Sorry, my reputation points are too low to comment, so I have to do this answer-variant) Alright, here's the lowdown on the energy use of AI from the paper "The ...
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What AI applications exist to solve sustainability issues?

The paper The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (2020, published in Nature) should contain the information you're looking for. In the introduction, the ...
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How much energy consumption is involved in Chat GPT responses being generated?

I've taken a stab at estimating the carbon footprint of ChatGPT here. I estimated the daily carbon footprint of the ChatGPT service to be around 23 kgCO2e and the primary assumption was that the ...
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How much energy consumption is involved in Chat GPT responses being generated?

I found a reply in this research paper. According to them, it's ~3Wh per query.
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Will there be some promising techniques that can make AI greener and affordable in the future?

As far as I know, green AI and red AI are very recent terms and/or research areas, but their importance will or should definitely be more highlighted in the coming years (for obvious reasons). I don't ...
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How machine learning can help with sustainable development and biological conservation?

There are a variety of aspects where AI can help for the public good. Future studies of computational methods can contribute to a sustainable management ecosystem by its data acquisition, ...
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How much energy consumption is involved in Chat GPT responses being generated?

Great topic! I'd love to see this knowledge added as a subsection to Wikipedia's ChatGPT page. I'll look into getting it started. Out of curiosity, I posed the same questions to GPT-4, approximately 7 ...
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How much energy consumption is involved in Chat GPT responses being generated?

So I asked ChatGPT-4 about its energy use per query. The dialog is appended at the bottom of this message. (I realize the OP asked about ChatGPT-3) TL;DR If ChatGPT-4's claim that a typical answer ...
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