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This is on point. I'm Megna Chakra-Bardi.

And today we're going to start off with a question for chat GPT.

Got a window open right here in front of me, chatgpt.com.

And this is live radio, so I'm not 100% sure this is going to work, but we're going to try it out.

So here's my query for chat GPT. How much electricity does chat? You guys are now finding out how

a slova typeer I am. Chat GPT use per query compared to an incandescent light bulb with a B.

How much electricity does chat GBT use per query compared to an incandescent light bulb?

Enter.

It is thinking.

Oh, here it goes.

The amount of electricity chat GPT uses per query is relatively low, but calculating it directly can be complex.

It depends on a number of factors. However, the bot says, let's make some general comparison runs on powerful cloud servers. When

a user sends a query, it goes through multiple layers of processing from the network and storage

to the machine learning model itself.

The extent of energy consumption for one query, okay, here's finally the answer, is likely in the range of a few watt seconds.

For context, one study suggested that a large model like GPT3 could consume 0.5 to 1.5 kilowatt hours for training. Okay. Wow. So this is not actually answering my question.

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