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OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models
(www.theguardian.com)
is there any picture of the guy without his hand up like that?
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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those are his lying/making up hand gestures. its the same thing trump does with his hands when hes lying or exaggerating, he does the wierd accordian hands.
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Obviously it's higher. If it was any lower, they would've made a huge announcement out of it to prove they're better than the competition.
I get the distinct impression that most of the focus for GPT5 was making it easier to divert their overflowing volume of queries to less expensive routes.
I’m thinking otherwise. I think GPT5 is a much smaller model - with some fallback to previous models if required.
Since it’s running on the exact same hardware with a mostly similar algorithm, using less energy would directly mean it’s a “less intense” model, which translates into an inferior quality in American Investor Language (AIL).
And 2025’s investors doesn’t give a flying fuck about energy efficiency.
And they don't want to disclose the energy efficiency becaaaause ... ?
Because the AI industry is a bubble that exists to sell more GPUs and drive fossil fuel demand
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They probably wouldn't really care how efficient it is, but they certainly would care that the costs are lower.
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When will genAI be so good, it'll solve its own energy crisis?
Current genAI? Never. There's at least one breakthrough needed to build something capable of actual thinking.
Most certainly it won't happen until after AI has developed a self-preservation bias. It's too bad the solution is turning off the AI.
Duh. Every company like this "suddenly" starts withholding public progress reports, once their progress fucking goes downhill. Stop giving these parasites handouts
I have to test it with Copilot for work. So far, in my experience its "enhanced capabilities" mostly involve doing things I didn't ask it to do extremely quickly. For example, it massively fucked up the CSS in an experimental project when I instructed it to extract a React element into its own file.
That's literally all I wanted it to do, yet it took it upon itself to make all sorts of changes to styling for the entire application. I ended up reverting all of its changes and extracting the element myself.
Suffice to say, I will not be recommending GPT 5 going forward.
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Photographer1: Sam, could you give us a goofier face?
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Photographer2: Goofier!!
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