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Thirst

by Ealhwine
illustrated by Natalie Cunderlik

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A Microsoft 365 subscription costs 179 dollarydoos, equating 15
pints per annum. Therefore, you should stay
on mine, even though I’m more than
antipodean. At this point it’s not even
interdependence, you insist, but utilitarianism, yielding
warmth and fuzziness. AMP blurbs warn a single
100-word email from GPT-4
wastes 519mL of water in cooling
processes. I ask directly. The claim
that generating a 100-word email requires 519mL of water is likely
an oversimplified calculation based on the environmental cost
of training and running LLMs. Assigning a precise
water cost to something as small as a 100-word response
is highly context-dependent. Water cost varies significantly
based on the time of year. “Try again” is a valid prompt.
Analysis found that ChatGPT consumes just over
one 500mL bottle of water per 100-word request. How
to boil an egg. What is the meaning of life?
Traditional
search engines are gentler. Training GPT-3 is estimated
to have used 1 300MWh of electricity, the equivalent of 1.625 million
hours of watching Netflix. Almost half of respondents used ChatGPT
casually. One application. LLMs are most effectively used
for producing text, so use them
to assist with writing documents. One heaping teaspoon. Provide
as much detail as possible in one
prompt to get the most out of it. Please. The result will only
be as good as the information initially provided. What I wouldn’t give
for one pint, rounded up, spent on a summer night with you.

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Ealhwine is the pseudonym of a Carleton alumnus turned AI trainer.

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