AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power
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Key facts
- In a recent podcast interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that the water use needed to harvest a single almond amounted to 38,000 ChatGPT queries. (The calculation has been disputed.)
- Rather than asking an AI chatbot a simple question and answer, these agents can give themselves hundreds of small prompts based on a user’s original question,” says their colleague Maxwell Zeff
- In other technological growth areas, we're constrained by how many people are driving a car or streaming Netflix,” says Boris Gamazaychikov, the co-founder and CEO of Sustainable AI, a research
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Summary
“What on earth are they building all of these data centers for? ” an exasperated friend asked me recently. They’re not the only one asking: The team got several similar questions on their recent data center livestream. The answer isn’t to help the average user search for recipes or look up places to visit on a vacation; simple chatbot queries are an increasingly outdated way of thinking about how AI works. “Rather than asking an AI chatbot a simple question and answer, these agents can give themselves hundreds of small prompts based on a user’s original question,” says their colleague Maxwell Zeff, who writes the weekly Model Behavior newsletter.