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 @saxicola @nantucketebooks @gerrymcgovern By my rough calculation, a human goes through about 4% of the water ChatGPT uses if the person or bot is answering a page of questions. That's the same as what the Google search usesโ1/25th of the evaporation for a chatbot. 15 comments
 @gerrymcgovern @shadowfals @nantucketebooks  I don't know about your brain, but mine tends to lose stored information over time. As it ages, its storage capacity shrinks ever further. I imagine this is why written language was invented. Words on paper don't fade so quickly. @argv_minus_one @gerrymcgovern @shadowfals @nantucketebooks As for search engines, the point of them is to find information I need when I don't know where to find it. How else would I do that? By walking up to random people on the street and asking them questions? I'd be lucky if none of them violently attacked me, let alone gave me useful answers. @chaosmonkey @shadowfals @nantucketebooks @gerrymcgovern I needed something quick for how much water the model person would use. That was "an average person needs eight cups of water a day". 8 cups / 24 hours = 0.3333 cups/hour A quarter of that is 0.0833 cups / 15 minutes. 1.000 litre = 4.227 cups 0.0833 / 4.227 = 0.0197 litres But I'd needed half a litre, not a litre in the conversion, so the number is doubled for 0.0394. As a percentage, that's rounded to 4%. @shadowfals @chaosmonkey @saxicola @shadowfals I always welcome and appreciate open, honest, transparent and civil discourse / reactions based on facts and logic. ๐ The calculation has definitely given me food for thought. @chaosmonkey @shadowfals @shadowfals @saxicola I appreciate the calculation and by extension your transparency. โค๏ธ Personally I would probably have started with the premise of "the average person requires at least two litres of water per day" but that's what I'm used to. I think I'll try out some similar calculations. Maybe create a site where people can compare energy expenditure between various things like "the average google search" or "three minutes of youtube" @chaosmonkey where I live, cups are more commonly used as measurement. I had to look up the conversion to litres. Starting with litres would definitely be simpler! |
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Excellent! I love the people here, when you get proper (science based) answers to speculative questions.