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Your AI Use Could Have a Hidden Environmental Cost
- German researchers found that AI systems like Chat GPT have significant environmental costs, often resulting in higher carbon emissions than simple Google searches.
- The study reported that emissions from certain AI questions can be up to six times higher than simpler inquiries.
- Researchers stated that larger language models could produce up to 50 times more emissions than smaller models for the same questions.
- Experts warned that AI services might deplete natural resources due to their high energy consumption, primarily from fossil fuels.
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN Whether answering work emails or writing wedding vows, generative artificial intelligence tools have become a reliable assistant in many people's lives. But a growing body of research shows that for every problem AI solves, hidden environmental costs accrue. Each word in an instruction directed to the AI is broken down into groups of numbers called "ID tokens" and sent to massive data centers—some larger than football fi…
Your AI use could have a hidden environmental cost
By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Greener newsletter. Our limited newsletter series guides you on how to minimize your personal role in the climate crisis — and reduce your eco-anxiety. Whether it’s answering work emails or drafting wedding vows, generative artificial intelligence tools have become a trusty copilot in many people’s lives. But a growing body of research shows that for every problem AI solves, hidden env…
Between your laptop and a noisy GPU cluster, the instructions given to artificial intelligence are at the origin of an energy consumption that remains mysterious. A columnist from the Wall Street Journal tried to trace their journey and their impact
Generative AI is based on enormous expectations for the future. But how sustainable is a technology with such high power consumption and unclear climate balance?
Generative artificial intelligence has become a common tool for solving everyday tasks, from writing emails to solving mathematical problems. But, after each seemingly harmless response, there is a complex energy process that leaves a mark on the environment.The process behind an AI response When you ask a question to a tool like ChatGPT, that query does not just "float" in the air until an answer appears.What really happens is that every word i…
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