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UNU Report: Streamlining polite language such as “thank you” in AI Directives to allow ChatGPT 25% reduction in energy consumption.
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News from IT House, June 6, according to Chinese Science yesterday, a recent report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) shows that the streamlining of polite language in the alerts is an option for ChatGPT Can reduce consumption by 25%.
The report estimated that unnecessary polite language such as “please” in the instructions would save between 87 and 98 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year. This corresponds to 760,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa living with electricity throughout the year.
IT House notes that researchers have suggested that, in order to reduce AI ' s carbon footprint, user writing instructions should be simple and condensed, avoid meaningless chat cycles, and not build human emotional relationships with AI.
UNU-INWEH researcher Kaveh Madani said, "We don't want you to be rude to AI, but we just want you not to get caught up in an invalid chat, let alone rely on AI."
Chat robots operate on large-linguistic models that divide text into words for computation. Madani explained that streamlining the instructions would reduce both the number of words that the model needs to resolve and the number of words generated by the AI response, and that short instructions in some scenarios would reduce the complexity of the task and thus save more power.
This report is one of the most widely covered AI environmental cost assessment studies. The report warns that, with the rapid increase in the rate of access to AI, its consumption of electricity, land and water is increasing rapidly.
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