Sam Altman, the founder of ChatGPT, came to X to reply to a post that asked how much energy it costs to have polite exchanges with AI like please and thank you. Altman replies with a humorous take, saying that it's tens of millions of dollars well spent. Even though it takes milliseconds for AI systems to respond to responses like please and thank you, the impact of these billions of small interactions is a bit serious. But Altman says that it's worth it to have polite exchanges of politeness.
According to a survey taken earlier this year, 55% of the respondents from the UK and the US admitted to having polite interactions with AI, with half of them saying jokingly that they do it out of fear in case a robot uprising happens. 48% of the American respondents from another study said that they believe that it is important to be polite with AI, with Gen-Z believing it the most (56%). They said that they fear that being rude to AI can somehow affect them in the future. Many of the social media users also joke about being polite with AI, saying that this can somehow make them score extra points with future robots. Social media users joke that all of us have to say polite exchanges like please and thank you to AI because being rude to them is concerning.
Even though people joke about it a lot, does being polite with AI really matter? A research has shown that saying nice and polite things to AI can make it produce high-quality content. A paper published on arXiv found that using impolite and rude prompts with AI can result in their poor performance. Saying things like please and thank you to AI models like ChatGPT is proof that we are slowly making them our conversational partners and getting used to their presence in our lives.
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According to a survey taken earlier this year, 55% of the respondents from the UK and the US admitted to having polite interactions with AI, with half of them saying jokingly that they do it out of fear in case a robot uprising happens. 48% of the American respondents from another study said that they believe that it is important to be polite with AI, with Gen-Z believing it the most (56%). They said that they fear that being rude to AI can somehow affect them in the future. Many of the social media users also joke about being polite with AI, saying that this can somehow make them score extra points with future robots. Social media users joke that all of us have to say polite exchanges like please and thank you to AI because being rude to them is concerning.
Even though people joke about it a lot, does being polite with AI really matter? A research has shown that saying nice and polite things to AI can make it produce high-quality content. A paper published on arXiv found that using impolite and rude prompts with AI can result in their poor performance. Saying things like please and thank you to AI models like ChatGPT is proof that we are slowly making them our conversational partners and getting used to their presence in our lives.
Image: DIW-Aigen
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