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Ditch the niceties in AI prompts to save energy use, say researchers

New Scientist

ChatGPT now processes around 2.5 billion queries every day UN researchers are urging people to be less polite to artificial intelligences after a report found that cutting words from prompts could reduce ChatGPT's energy consumption by up to 25 per cent. Removing "please", "thank you" and other unnecessary words from AI prompts could save 87 to 98 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, the report from the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) found. That is the equivalent of the annual residential electricity use of up to 760,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa. 'Flashes of brilliance and frustration': I let an AI agent run my day To reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint, people should write concise prompts, avoid getting sucked into conversation loops and refrain from starting relationships with AI, the researchers said. "We are not saying be rude to your AI. But don't fall into the interaction trap and don't go falling in love with it either," says Kaveh Madani at UNU-INWEH.







CollapsingBanditsandTheirApplicationtoPublic HealthInterventions

Neural Information Processing Systems

Neither (i) nor (ii) are known for general RMABs. Therefore, to capture the scheduling problems addressed inthiswork,weintroduce anewsubclass ofRMABs,Collapsing Bandits, distinguished by the following feature: when an arm is played, the agent fully observes its state, "collapsing" any uncertainty, but when an arm is passive, no observation is made and uncertainty evolves.



The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation

MIT Technology Review

Plus: how wastewater tracking could help curb measles' rise in the US. Can ChatGPT Health do better? For the past two decades, there's been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online. The practice was so common that it gained the pejorative moniker "Dr. But times are changing, and many medical-information seekers are now using LLMs. According to OpenAI, 230 million people ask ChatGPT health-related queries each week.


Heist game Relooted gets a release date

Engadget

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini Reclaim stolen African artifacts with your crew on February 10. The intriguing Africanfuturist heist game,, is out on February 10. Developed by independent South African studio Nyamakop, the game focuses on a ragtag crew from Johannesburg that liberates real-life African artifacts from a series of fictionalized Western museums. You have to carefully plan each heist with your fellow teammates, knowing where to place each crew member and how you're going to get in and out in one piece. Once you've grabbed the artifact you're looking for in each mission, an alarm will sound and you have a limited amount of time to escape, so good preparation is vital.