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Timnit Gebru was fired in late 2020 for publicly examining the energy consumption of LLMs, perhaps that would be a more poignant start-time.
by klyrs 2y ago
Timnit Gebru was fired in late 2020 for publicly examining the energy consumption of LLMs, perhaps that would be a more poignant start-time.
- jeffbee 2y agoGebru's estimates of AI energy consumption were adopted from Strubell. Strubell's estimates of AI energy consumption are ridiculous and according to David Patterson range from 88x to 10000x high. My humble opinion on the affair is that the conflict between Gebru and the rest of the company arose from Gebru's refusal to use the best and most comprehensive information on AI energy consumption, that is what they had access to firsthand as a privilege of being a Google insider.