A paywalled Bloomberg article by Josh Saul and Dina Bass (March 9, 2023 at 10:00 PM GMT+8) highlighted the carbon footprint of large language models and any other Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) products built upon machine learning (ML)/deep learning (DL) technology base in the range of millions->trillions of parameters.
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Artificial intelligence has become the tech industry’s shiny new toy… But the creation of every new chatbot and image generator requires a lot of electricity, which means the technology may be responsible for a massive and growing amount of planet-warming carbon emissions.
More information can be found in the Bloomberg article. Ref: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/how-much-energy-do-ai-and-chatgpt-use-no-one-knows-for-sure#xj4y7vzkg
A researcher at Hugging Face Inc. (competitor of Open AI) Sasha Luccioni has written a paper quantifying the carbon impact of her company’s technology BLOOM.
If you have interest to learn more, the PDF link to her research can be found here. Ref: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02001
