The world’s abuzz with the power of AI. ChatGPT has really captured the public’s imagination – with good reason. But yesterday Reuters ran a story in which OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman said (quoted from Twitter) the computing costs of operating ChatGPT were “eye watering”; a couple or more cents per conversation. In the same article, Alphabet’s Chairman John Hennessy said that having an exchange with AI probably costs 10 times more than a standard keyword search. I wanted to know how the costs for AI racked up, so I asked the “person” who have the answers, ChatGPT. Here’s out conversation....