Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to AI is wasting colossal amounts of energy, warn experts

SAYING “please” and “thank you” to AI chatbots is a waste of energy, say experts. Skipping niceties could save between 87 and 98 gigawatt hours a year. Such an amount would power a city of 330,000, such as Leicester, for a year, a study said. It is because bots use energy by breaking down users’...