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You think you can drop a model into a new data center with a different architecture, different censors, different workloads, and it will magically save energy?
by Jyaif 7y ago
You think you can drop a model into a new data center with a different architecture, different censors, different workloads, and it will magically save energy?
- badrequest 7y agoThat is a fair point, though I still think if your genuine motivation was the well-being of the Earth, then you'd, I dunno, _try?_
- erikpukinskis 7y agoPresuming other people’s motivations from their behavior is a bit of a fool’s errand. It’s very easy to be wrong, and it’s the worst kind of wrong because you feel so justified. You have reasons.
- Jyaif 7y agoThat I agree with: they should have shared their methodology for saving energy.
- BeatLeJuce 7y agoThey did, the papers behind their tech are published and available free of charge (someone else here linked to https://deepmind.com/research/publications/safe-exploration-continuous-action-spaces https://deepmind.com/research/publications/safe-exploration-... )
- Barrin92 7y agoeven if they didn't, seeing the limits of those models in different environments would certainly help the community overall, and if it saves a tenth of the energy it does for Google somewhere else it would be an enormous immediate reduction in energy consumption on a global scale, so it's hard to see what the downside would be. If one was truly concerned about 'democratizing AI', as companies like Google so often claim, then sharing access to the trained models would arguably be far more effective than just sharing research papers which many companies don't even know how to implement. In fact the large majority of companies that are responsible for energy consumption don't have any data on the scale that Google has, so I would go as far as call this a bad faith deflection from the beginning.
- icebraining 7y agoIt's exactly because the majority of companies don't know how to implement those models that it wouldn't do any good. This is the "give me teh codez" of AI. Google's models are specific to their environment, and they would be more likely to generate waste (at least in time and money required to implement them) than to reduce it.