Recently, I’ve noticed that the way most Americans (myself included) tend to compliment people is very different from how my local Swiss neighbors speak. People in the German-speaking area of ...

Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher. By Sopan Deb The question of whether to be polite ...

“I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.” It was a seemingly random question posed by a user on X (formerly Twitter), ...