{"id":940037,"date":"2025-06-20T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940037"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:39:39","slug":"ai-chatbots-using-reason-emit-more-carbon-than-those-responding-concisely-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/20\/ai-chatbots-using-reason-emit-more-carbon-than-those-responding-concisely-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbots using reason emit more carbon than those responding concisely, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study found that carbon emissions from chat-based generative AI can be six times higher when responding to complex prompts, like abstract algebra or philosophy, compared to simpler prompts, such as high school history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The environmental impact of questioning trained (large-language models) is strongly determined by their reasoning approach, with explicit reasoning processes significantly driving up energy consumption and carbon emissions,&#8221; first author Maximilian Dauner, a researcher at Hochschule Munchen University of Applied Sciences, Germany, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study found that carbon emissions from chat-based generative AI can be six times higher when responding to complex prompts, like abstract algebra or philosophy, compared to simpler prompts, such as high school history. &#8220;The environmental impact of questioning trained (large-language models) is strongly determined by their reasoning approach, with explicit reasoning processes significantly driving up energy consumption and carbon emissions,&#8221; first author Maximilian Dauner, a researcher at Hochschule Munchen University of Applied Sciences, Germany, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}