Book description
Artificial intelligence (AI) is presented as a solution to the greatest challenges of our time, from global pandemics and chronic diseases to cybersecurity threats and the climate crisis. But AI also contributes to the climate crisis by running on technology that depletes scarce resources and by relying on data centres…
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1 author picked Is AI Good for the Planet? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Brevini gives us something real to worry about—climate change. Did you know that using ChatGPT to look something up can take up to ten times as much energy as doing a Google search?
To most of us, AI seems like something that just happens in thin air (the cloud). But, in reality, the data centers needed to train and run AI rely on a variety of scarce resources and eat up vast amounts of energy in doing their calculations. This little book of just 109 small pages lays out the many ways in which AI is contributing to climate change.
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