Wrapping our heads around AI and climate

Alp Kucukelbir, co-author of a recent “Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap,” discusses the strengths and limits of AI in relation to climate, where it all might be headed, and how concerned we should be about the energy use of data centers.

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@Bentley

Thank you so much for this.

A rational discussion about what AI actually is and what benefits it can confer, not least in the realm of climate.

One additional observation for many of the #Pioutocracy, it seems that generating one image using a system like ChatGPT probably uses about as much energy as 20 seconds of gaming.