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Climate & Resources
AI can be green: Fire up the GPUs
The energy footprint of training and running AI models is a drop in the ocean compared to what these models make possible for the major environmental benefits now, and in the future. We believe we should be training more models rather than handicapping development. A subject of much debate is the increased environmental impact of […]
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Human & Machine
Digital Sugar: Consequences of unethical recommender systems
Introduction We are spending more and more time online. The average internet user spends over 2 hours on social networking platforms daily. These platforms are powered by recommendation systems, complex algorithms that use machine learning to determine what content should be shown to the user based on their personal data and usage history. In the […]
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Climate & Resources
An Opportunity or a Disaster? AI’s Impact on the Climate Crisis is More Complicated than You Think
The (Potential) Opportunity Improving energy efficiency in various industries, assisting the renewable energy grid management, allowing intelligent waste recycling, and assisting environmental policy-making. All of these ways of mitigating the climate crisis, and many more, are being made possible thanks to the increased capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI). Various academics (for example, see Cowls et […]
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