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i m not sure, if you factor in the CO2 footprint of computer manufacture, and the fact that AI needs powerful computers & networking to be delivered. Our body c
by buboard 7y ago
i m not sure, if you factor in the CO2 footprint of computer manufacture, and the fact that AI needs powerful computers & networking to be delivered. Our body carbon is almost 100% recycleable.
- eloff 7y agoIf only the carbon footprint of a human was the body carbon. Modern humans have a very heavy carbon footprint, especially in the US. Think of all the things you do and consume and all the carbon involved all thorough the chain. It's a big number. Computers are extremely efficient compared to that.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoPeople you hire on MTurk don't generally work in the US, and have a small fraction of the carbon footprint of an average American.
- hobofan 7y agoAren't most of those arguments here moot, since they also need a computer (+ networking) to be available on MTurk? computer < human + computer Of course not every computer has the same specs and footprint, but they should be in roughly the same ballpark.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoA typical computer used by a typical person has only a fraction of energy use of GPU farms utilized to train DNN models. We're not at the point where you can pick an existing DNN off the shelf and just use it, you have train (at least partially) a new one for each new task, often many times.