Английский ключ - #EnglishQi

18/02/2026

25/10/2025

Evri parcels have never failed me, but it looks like they may have got on the wrong foot with other clients...🧐

08/10/2025

Some brilliant small talk ideas! Been scrolling through your social media? 🤓

29/07/2025

When you have not had enough of teaching during the year, you become an academic director for a summer camp and indulge even more!
To be fair, Summer Camp at King's is delightful. With a healthy share of trips and pool parties, English teaching and academies (we run International Relations, Sports and Music) are sheer bliss.

26/07/2025

21/04/2025

The price of being polite.

Do you write/say 'please' and 'thank you' to the bots?




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If you say "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT, you're not alone— but it might be costing OpenAI more than you'd expect. CEO Sam Altman said that polite users add to electricity costs, with extra responses leading to “tens of millions of dollars” in power use.

Each friendly reply you get from ChatGPT is powered by large, energy-hungry data centers. These centers use tons of electricity, not just for computing, but also for cooling the machines.

Still, Altman seems to think it’s worth it. He believes natural, human-like conversations are part of what makes AI valuable—even if it means higher energy bills.

So go ahead and be polite. As Altman put it, it’s “tens of millions of dollars well spent.”

15/04/2025