“Using polite language sets a tone for the response,” Beavers notes. The argument can certainly be made; what we consider “artificial intelligence” might more accurately be described as “prediction machines,” like your phone’s predictive text, but with more autonomy to spit out complete sentences in response to questions or instructions.
First, there has never been a person/thing in my life that deserves a “thank you” more than my espresso machine and second, if saying please and thank you costs OpenAI a lot more money so they burn through it quicker, I’m struggling to see the down side…