#AI ChatGPT – OpenAI: How much do your operations cost and who pays for these?

I asked OpenAI:

"How much does your daily operation cost? What are the main components of that cost? Who pays these costs? What is the marginal cost for you of any of my conversations with you?"

OpenAI answered:

"I don't have real-time data or access to specific financial information, including the cost of my daily operation or the breakdown of those costs. My training and operation are managed by OpenAI, and the specific details of their infrastructure and expenses are not publicly disclosed.

The cost of maintaining a system like mine would typically involve several components, including:

1. Infrastructure: This includes the cost of servers, data storage, and computational resources needed to run the model efficiently.

2. Electricity and Cooling: Running large-scale AI models requires a significant amount of electricity and cooling infrastructure to prevent overheating.

3. Data and Training: The initial training of the model involves processing vast amounts of text data, which can be costly. Additionally, there are ongoing costs associated with fine-tuning and updating the model.

4. Research and Development: OpenAI invests in research and development to improve and maintain the model's capabilities.

5. Personnel: Employing researchers, engineers, and support staff to work on the project is another substantial cost.

6. Miscellaneous Costs: This can include licensing fees, legal expenses, and other operational expenses.

As for who pays these costs, it is typically the responsibility of the organization or entity that develops and maintains the AI model. OpenAI, in this case, covers the expenses associated with my operation.

Regarding the marginal cost of conversations with me, it's important to note that once the infrastructure and model are set up, the cost of each individual conversation is typically quite low. However, it can be challenging to calculate the precise marginal cost, as it depends on various factors such as server usage, data transfer, and electricity consumption. The majority of the expenses are incurred in the development, training, and maintenance phases, and serving additional conversations typically doesn't significantly increase those costs on a per-conversation basis."

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Note: The answers are copied exactly from those given to me by OpenAI

ChatGPT - OpenAI: Getting to know you!

 

Forcing oligarchs to keep their yachts, would be a much more severe sanction.

In those very rare moments the desire to own a yacht sets in, I remember the saying that the second happiest day for a millionaire is when he buys himself a super-duper yacht but, the happiest one, is that day he sells it.

With this in mind why should we advance the oligarchs such happiness? It could be much more effective to have a judge order him to keep the yacht and its crew in tip-top conditions for the next twenty years, and, if failing to do so, have to spend five years doing community service.

Warning! Let's not wake up to taxpayers having to pay unemployment benefits to many fired yacht-crews and pick up huge yacht-maintenance costs.

I warn so because though there must be tremendous buyer market in Russian oligarch yachts, few buyers, or none, will dare to show up. What's the future for this yachts: luxurious restaurants or tourist attractions like fancy Russian Faberge eggs floating museums?

Please, the more you feel enemies to your grandchildren’s way of life could be accumulating too much resources, would you not love for as much of these as possible to be frozen in unproductive assets, like fancy super-yachts?

So, is confiscating yachts a really potent way to fight a war and bring peace?

As also applies when taxing wealth it is important to consider if assets, like yachts, are to be sold, who are the buyers and what would they otherwise have done with that money. Would you, e.g., like an able entrepreneur to freeze his money/purchase-power in a luxurious yacht? And are we really sure those who will receive that money, e.g., the bureaucracy of turn, will give it a better use?

Warning! Just let not confiscations become somebody’s profitable business. 

I say this because, when selling a confiscated asset, e.g., a Russian oligarch’s super-yacht, what’s really obtained, effectively confiscated, is the money somebody else has willingly put into that useless asset.