Flip. I knew the electricity cost of AI was high, but the water cost is awful, too:
For inference (i.e., conversation with ChatGPT), our estimate shows that ChatGPT needs a 500-ml bottle of water for a short conversation of roughly 20 to 50 questions and answers, depending on when and where the model is deployed. Given ChatGPT’s huge user base, the total water footprint for inference can be enormous.
John Naughton in The Observer:
The creative commons of the internet has been gradually and inexorably enclosed, much as agricultural land was by parliamentary acts from 1600 onwards in England.
The nice thing about EV tech developing so fast is the realisation that my current EV - good though it is — is probably the absolute worst EV I will ever own.
Things will only get better from here.
Beware! The link controllers don’t want you soiling their pristine websites with your dirty open web linking behaviour.
(People are really still trying to control who links to them in 2024… Mind-boggling. 🤯)
If AI search takes hold, and upends the business model of web publishing and Google itself, the search giant will have been the architect of its own downfall.
By letting search quality decay to maximise profits, it created the perfect conditions for its own disruption.