‘Please and thank you': Australians address AI with good manners
The Daily Telegraph's Tim Blair says Australians are saying 'please' and 'thank you' to artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT.
'With artificial intelligence, because it's, you know, it's part of your interwebs, and your computers and your modern society, every bit of input that you use through AI … has an energy cost,' Mr Blair told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
'Tens of millions of dollars apparently for all these various AI companies because people are saying or writing please and thank you AI, and good on you AI.'
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