AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.
AI will make bitcoin's environmental devastation look like a picnic.
"If ChatGPT were integrated into the 9 billion searches done each day, the IEA says, the electricity demand would increase by 10 terawatt-hours a year — the amount consumed by about 1.5 million European Union residents."
@gerrymcgovern Just a reminder that many of those behind the AI chase will burn every atom of carbon if it means getting their benevolent AI godhead that'll undo all their waste.
There's a reason why some, in software behemoth companies, are interested in biological neural circuit architectures: the latter are extremely energy efficient.
At the same time, there's a subset of machine learning practitioners that dismiss neuroscience and neuroscientists as being entirely off track when it comes to understanding how neural networks compute.
This contraposition is quite the interesting dynamic to observe. Says more about the individual people than about the field, as is often the case.
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