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The Worrying Sustainability of LLMs
- Joshua Brook & Jelle Roeloffs
- February 4, 2024
In the past year, major tech conferences have had a buzzword overflow caused by the word “AI.” Realistically, what Google, Microsoft, and Meta mean when discussing AI is Large Language Model (LLM). These are ginormous systems of computing, costing hundreds of millions to set up and run in electricity costs, worker costs, and cooling water […]
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Climate & Resources
AI’s Paradox of Progress: A Worthwhile Cost for Climate Change Breakthroughs
- Lars de Wolf & Jarno Stijnman
- February 4, 2024
Dubai, December 2023. During the UN’s climate summit (COP28), representatives of 198 countries agreed to transition away from fossil fuels – a world first. Moving from one of the largest petrostates to its second-largest consumer, the USA, we see the importance of this topic being underlined beyond the diplomatic world. In a video that’s somewhere […]
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