MONTREAL, Sept 15 — If you care about the environment, think twice about using AI. Generative artificial intelligence uses 30 times more energy than a traditional search engine,...
AI is ‘accelerating the climate crisis ’: expert warns artificial intelligence uses 30 times more energy than a traditional search engineMONTREAL, Sept 15 — If you care about the environment, think twice about using AI.
According to the International Energy Agency, the combined AI and the cryptocurrency sectors consumed nearly 460 terawatt hours of electricity in 2022 — two percent of total global production.A leading researcher on the impact of AI on climate, Luccioni participated in 2020 in the creation of a tool for developers to quantify the carbon footprint of running a piece of code. “CodeCarbon” has since been downloaded more than a million times.
“We don't take into account water or rare materials,” she acknowledges, “but at least we know that for a specific task, we can measure energy efficiency and say that this model has an A+, and that model has a D,” she says.In order to develop her tool, Luccioni is experimenting with it on generative AI models that are accessible to everyone, or open source, but she would also like to do it on commercial models from Google or ChatGPT-creator OpenAI, which have been reluctant to agree.
The solution, she says, could come from governments that, for the moment, are “flying blindly,” without knowing what is “in the data sets or how the algorithms are trained.”It is also necessary to “explain to people what generative AI can and cannot do, and at what cost,” according to Luccioni.
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