{"id":103031,"date":"2020-02-28T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/ai-is-an-energy-guzzler-we-need-to-re-think-its-design-and-soon"},"modified":"2020-02-28T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:03:12","slug":"ai-is-an-energy-guzzler-we-need-to-re-think-its-design-and-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/ai-is-an-energy-guzzler-we-need-to-re-think-its-design-and-soon","title":{"rendered":"AI Is an Energy-Guzzler. We Need to Re-Think Its Design, and Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-is-an-energy-guzzler-we-need-to-re-think-its-design-and-soon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the computers and data centers that support AI\u2019s complex algorithms are very much dependent on electricity. While that may seem pretty obvious, it may be surprising to learn that AI can be extremely power-hungry, especially when it comes to training the models that enable machines to recognize your face in a photo or for Alexa to understand a voice command.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the problem is difficult to measure, but there have been some attempts to put hard numbers on the environmental cost.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, one <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1906.02243\">paper<\/a> published on the open-access repository arXiv claimed that the carbon emissions for training a basic natural language processing (NLP) model\u2014algorithms that process and understand language-based data\u2014are equal to the CO2 produced by the average American lifestyle over two years. A more robust model required the equivalent of about 17 years\u2019 worth of emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, the computers and data centers that support AI\u2019s complex algorithms are very much dependent on electricity. While that may seem pretty obvious, it may be surprising to learn that AI can be extremely power-hungry, especially when it comes to training the models that enable machines to recognize your face in a photo or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}