Every answer an AI gives to your questions requires the intensive operation of powerful processors, and therefore energy consumption.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI££££
How much money did OpenAI spend on electricity just to respond to the "Thank you" and "Please" addressed to the company's conversational models? A question posed on X to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, to which he replied: "Tens of millions of dollars, well spent." And added "You never know." Well spent? You never know? Yes, because the most popular joke since the advent of AI is that machines will remember you when they take over humanity and that they might spare you if you have been polite. A joke, certainly, but some people seem to really believe it.
Artificial Intelligence, Are Americans Forward-Looking?££££
Indeed, according to a survey conducted at the end of 2024, 67% of Americans say they are polite to AI. And 12% of them admit to doing so to appease the algorithm, in the event that machines one day take over. So many of them think that you never know...
