US EditionHow Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward.
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How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward.
For Michael Frank, efficiency has always been a major preoccupation. As a student in the 1990s, he was originally interested in artificial intelligence. But once he realized how much energy the technology would use, he took his research in another direction. “I started getting interested in the physical limits of computation,” he said. “What’s the most efficient computer you can possibly build?”… Source
AI needs an enormous amount of energy, while at the same time many conjure up their potential to save the climate. Can AI even be sustainable?
New analysis by researcher and founder of tech sustainability website Digiconomist Alex de Vries-Gao shows that artificial intelligence (AI) systems could account for almost half of data center energy use by the end of this year. The estimates come as the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted that AI will use almost as much energy as the entire country of Japan by the end of the decade.
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