{"id":3646,"date":"2023-05-29T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2023-05-29T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T14:34:48","slug":"its-both-generative-and-environmentally-harmful-a-computer-scientist-explains-the-carbon-footprint-of-chatgpt-and-its-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/29\/its-both-generative-and-environmentally-harmful-a-computer-scientist-explains-the-carbon-footprint-of-chatgpt-and-its-cousins\/","title":{"rendered":"Is generative AI harmful to the environment? A computer scientist explains the carbon footprint of ChatGPT and its cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generative AI is the hot new technology behind chatbots and image generators. But how hot does that make the planet? As an AI researcher, I often worry about the energy costs of building AI models. The more powerful the AI, the more power it requires. What does the emergence of increasingly powerful generative AI models mean for the future carbon footprint of society? &quot;Generative&quot; refers to the ability of an AI algorithm to produce complex data. An alternative is &quot;discriminative AI&quot;, which chooses between a fixed number of options and produces only one number. An example of a discriminatory output is choosing whether to approve a loan application. Generative AI can produce much more complex output such as a sentence, paragraph, image or even a short video. It has long been used in applications such as smart speakers to generate audio responses or in autocomplete to suggest a search query. But only recently has he acquired the ability to create human language and realistic photographs. Size is not the only predictor of carbon emissions. The open-access model BLOOM, developed by the BigScience project in France, is similar in size to GPT-3 but has a much lower carbon footprint, consuming 433 MWh of electricity while producing 30 tonnes of CO2 eq. A Google study found that for the same size, using a more efficient model architecture and processor and a greener data center can reduce the carbon footprint by 100 to 1,000 times. <em>(stuff)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&quot;by clicking on the title of the article, you will be redirected to the entire article&quot;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generative AI is the hot new technology behind chatbots and image generators. But how hot is it making the planet? As an AI researcher, I often worry about the energy costs of building artificial intelligence models. The more powerful the AI, the more energy it requires. What does the emergence of increasingly powerful generative AI models mean for society\u2019s future carbon footprint? \u201cGenerative\u201d refers to the ability of an AI algorithm [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikova-stopa","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}