Lola Solovyeva: “AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on electricity.” Asking ChatGPT what's for dinner? Here's how much energy that costs

Most of us do it without thinking: you open an AI tool, type a quick question, and wait for the answer to roll in. Easy. Fast. Apparently harmless. But what if those everyday questions come with a much higher energy bill than you expect?

That’s the starting point of the research of Lola Solovyeva, PhD candidate at UT. She studies something most people rarely consider: the energy use of large language models. The technology behind tools like ChatGPT, CoPilot, and other new AI-powered search engines. “AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on electricity.”
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