December 24, 2020
This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type used in Google Search and other text analysis products.
Among the risks is the large carbon footprint of developing this kind of AI technology. By some estimates, training an AI model generates as much carbon emissions as it takes to build and drive five cars over their lifetimes.
I am a researcher who studies and develops AI models, and I am all too familiar with the skyrocketing energy and financial costs of AI research. Why have AI models become so power hungry, and how are they different from traditional data center computation?
It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn â hereâs why AI is so power-hungry
December 24, 2020
Data centers like this Google facility in Iowa use copious amounts of electricity. Credit: Chad Davis/Flickr.
This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper.
The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type used in Google Search and other text analysis products.
Among the risks is the large carbon footprint of developing this kind of AI technology.
By some estimates, training an AI model generates as much carbon emissions as it takes to build and drive five cars over their lifetimes.
New MassDevelopment chief says mayoral experience a plus bondbuyer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bondbuyer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Year In Portraits
Share
The People We Met In A Year Like No Other
Three months into 2020, the world shut down. A pandemic upended daily life as streets emptied, schools closed and businesses shuttered. Millions lost jobs. Our health care system was tested like never before. And more than 300,000 Americans lost their lives, including over 11,000 here in Massachusetts.
The pandemic also exacerbated existing inequities in our society, as those already struggling battled additional challenges: isolation, a lack of resources, profound levels of stress and deep personal loss. COVID-19 exposed long-standing stresses within and among our communities. We experienced a national racial reckoning in the wake of police killings of Black men and women, a rise in unrest around the country and an ever-deepening political and social divide.
Academic Research Group Asks Agri Minister to Repeal Farm Laws, Negotiate With Farmers
The group, comprising around 40 economists from across the world, has raised questions about the Centre s intentions and the integrity of the process involved due to the hasty passage of the laws amid a pandemic.
Farmers shout slogans at Singhu border during their Delhi Chalo protest march against the Centres new farm laws, in New Delhi, in New Delhi, Friday, December 11, 2020. Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary
Government23/Dec/2020
New Delhi: An academic research group, comprising around 40 economists from across the world, has written a letter to agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar, requesting him to repeal the three farm laws which brought India’s farmers to the streets.