On: 'Thirsty' ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought

[MrMcCall]

Well, if that's the case, then the situation is worse than I imagined. I thought that training the model would be far more expensive computationally than using it to compute an 'answer'.

Thanks.

[MF-DOOM → MrMcCall]

Training is much more computationally intensive than computing a _single_ answer. But not compared to running the model over time at scale for millions of users.

[MrMcCall → MF-DOOM]

Thanks. That is precisely how I intuited the situation. 40+ years of programming FTW!