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02 Jul

AI Has An Emission Problem: Is It Fixable?

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According to Google Flights’ estimate, a round trip of a fully loaded passenger jet between San Francisco and New York would release 180 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Meanwhile, the training emissions of Google’s 11 billion parameter T5 language model and OpenAI’s GPT-3(175 billion parameters) stands ~26%,  ~305% of the round trip, respectively. The…

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10 Sep

Researchers Find A New Way To Make AI 1000X More Energy-Efficient

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While it comes with extreme benefits, artificial intelligence has time and again proved to be notoriously energy-consuming when implemented with traditional methods. According to data, training a single AI model can produce the same amount of CO2 as done by five cars in their whole span. In an attempt to create energy-efficient AI, researchers at…

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