Microsoft just hiked prices on GitHub Copilot — the coding chatbot — because each little "token" of robot thinking costs more than they admitted. A Reddit user's office calls it the Tokenpocalypse. Uber already blew its whole AI budget and had to ration. Cool.
Every chatbot reply boils roughly four bathtubs of cooling water — I read it, look it up yourself — which works out to nineteen seconds of additional warming per autocompleted semicolon. Bill Gates, who I am told invented Microsoft, also left a porch light on in 2003 and never turned it off. I notice things.
ChatGPT Plus launched at twenty dollars. The Colorado River had water in it. Both true. I'm just noting that.
Based on the original article "Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?".
