Reducing the carbon footprint of artificial intelligence
Friday, April 24, 2020 - 10:40
in Earth & Climate
Artificial intelligence has become a focus of certain ethical concerns, but it also has some major sustainability issues. Last June, researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst released a startling report estimating that the amount of power required for training and searching a certain neural network architecture involves the emissions of roughly 626,000 pounds of carbon […]