I received an advertisement for the Copilot Windows computer “the computer you can talk to.” The copy claims, “Copilot Vision understands what’s on your screen, and you can use Voice to ask questions about it, get suggestions, and take action.”
I wonder what the hidden cost of this technology will be. It is estimated that just being polite and saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT has cost the company “tens of millions of dollars” in additional energy use!
I wrote yesterday about unintended consequences (dot #4769) and you can add spoken prompts to the list. Before you add more features, consider the infrastructure required to support them. Who says that talk is cheap?
