TL;DR: Politeness directed at ChatGPT, like saying thank you to a response, costs a surprising amount of money. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the real-world electricity costs amount to tens of ...

Saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT emerged primarily as a form of social etiquette combined with a superstition that, one day, an AI overlord might be able to know if you were nice to it or ...

"Dump Trump." That's what my 9-year-old son Tommy said to some supporters of President Donald Trump on a train last Friday. We were returning from our second inauguration in four years. In 2013, he ...

What’s the most important skill for a soldier? Manners of course. That’s at least what the U.S. Army thought in 1949. That’s why the Department of the Army published a specific pamphlet for officers ...

It can be the smallest of gestures, the simplest of phrases, and the quietest of actions that make us think that the person we're having a conversation with is truly connecting with us. When you're at ...