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Median is _an_ average, are you wanting a mean consumption perhaps when you say average?
by sceptic123 1y ago
Median is _an_ average, are you wanting a mean consumption perhaps when you say average?
- Capricorn2481 1y agoWell first of all, you're implying this measures our consumption at all. But it's left completely vague what this is a median of. They said "A point-in-time analysis quantified the energy consumed per median Gemini App text-generation prompt, considering data from May 2025". Considering what data? All queries sent to Gemini? Real users? A select few? Test queries from Google? Does it include AI summaries of google searches? Because if the data includes stuff as simple as "How tall is Lee Pace," that is obviously going to bring the median query down, even if the top distribution is using many times more energy. But still, the median is not useful by itself. It tells us 50% of the queries measured were under 0.24Wh. It obviously obscures policy-relevant information to not include the mean, but it also obscures what I can do individually without more details on the data. Where am I on this median? It makes the most sense to provide the entire distribution and examples of data points.
- sceptic123 1y agoI'm not implying anything other than there's a tendency to lazy use of the word average