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Ask HN: Will the coming GPT revolution require significantly more energy?

5 points by beepbooptheory ↗ HN
Just something I am thinking about, wondering if we can even know. If we completely replaced and/or augmented, e.g., web search with GPT(-like) models, would there be substantially more energy needed in order to sustain this? (Or less, or about the same?)

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gus_massa
It's correct, but it's bounded by the sum of the advertisers budget.

Google can show better ads, but the user will escape and not see the adds in the second page, so Google compensate the money.

Google can show better ads, and the users will migrate from Bing to Google, and the advertisers too.