Peter RoopnarineIs anyone surprised? "researchers estimates that the training of GPT-3, which ChatGPT is partly based on, consumed 1,287 MWh, and led to emissions of more than 550 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent" https://www.wired.com/story/the-generative-ai-search-race-has-a-dirty-secret/ #climatechange #AI
Jared Mauch@peterroopnarine I find these analysis interesting but also often misses the idle tax the machines would have had in some other role - its not as if the compute would be unused - a bigger threat I see often is equipment powered on but not yet in service or worse, decommissioned due to age (and efficiency) and still powered on as nobody wants to break anything
@jaredmauch agreed that those are all additional problems. But none of these caused the problem of global warming, they are simply magnifying and accelerating it. Why do we insist on piling on the factors, often excusing it by saying, well, someone else is doing, or would do it anyway?