{"id":173225,"date":"2023-10-01T05:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T10:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/bigger-isnt-always-better-when-it-comes-to-generative-ai"},"modified":"2023-10-01T05:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T10:23:57","slug":"bigger-isnt-always-better-when-it-comes-to-generative-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/bigger-isnt-always-better-when-it-comes-to-generative-ai","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Isn\u2019t Always Better When It Comes To Generative AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bigger-isnt-always-better-when-it-comes-to-generative-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The explosive recent growth of AI tools to generate text, images, or audio relies on gargantuan amounts of information.<\/p>\n<p>That information doesn\u2019t come for free. It can exact high \u2013 and unequal \u2013 costs in terms of energy, water, and labor, though these costs are largely invisible to users.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of energy, generative AI models typically depend on extremely large-scale cloud providers, which use chips with more transistors that require at least <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2023\/07\/how-to-make-generative-ai-greener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2023\/07\/how-to-make-generative-ai-greener\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"10 times as much energy\">10 times as much energy<\/a> as traditional versions. Unsurprisingly, models that use more training data and contain more parameters tend to guzzle more energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The explosive recent growth of AI tools to generate text, images, or audio relies on gargantuan amounts of information. That information doesn\u2019t come for free. It can exact high \u2013 and unequal \u2013 costs in terms of energy, water, and labor, though these costs are largely invisible to users. In terms of energy, generative AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173225","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}