Tag: sustainability
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Slashdot: Former Google Chief Urges AI Investment Over Climate Targets
Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/11/1637248/former-google-chief-urges-ai-investment-over-climate-targets?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Former Google Chief Urges AI Investment Over Climate Targets Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights Eric Schmidt’s advocacy for prioritizing AI infrastructure development over climate goals, expressing concerns about the energy consumption of AI applications and data centers. It suggests that AI could contribute…
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New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins
Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/science/nobel-prize-chemistry.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins Feedly Summary: The Nobel, awarded to David Baker of the University of Washington and Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind, is the second this week to involve artificial…
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The Register: Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to AlphaFold, Rosetta creators – another win for AI
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/09/alphafold_rosetta_nobel_chemistry_prize/ Source: The Register Title: Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to AlphaFold, Rosetta creators – another win for AI Feedly Summary: Let’s just hope they don’t give the literature award to a bot, too This year’s Nobel Prizes are shaping up to be a triumph for AI. After awarding the physics prize to early…
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Hacker News: Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models
Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00907 Source: Hacker News Title: Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper presents a novel approach to reducing energy consumption in large language models by using an innovative algorithm called L-Mul, which approximates floating-point multiplication through integer addition. This method…
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Slashdot: Researchers Claim New Technique Slashes AI Energy Use By 95%
Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/10/08/2035247/researchers-claim-new-technique-slashes-ai-energy-use-by-95?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Researchers Claim New Technique Slashes AI Energy Use By 95% Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Researchers at BitEnergy AI, Inc. have introduced Linear-Complexity Multiplication (L-Mul), a novel technique that reduces AI model power consumption by up to 95% by replacing floating-point multiplications with integer additions. This…
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The Register: It’s not just AI datacenters that need their own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/04/quanta_buys_microgrids/ Source: The Register Title: It’s not just AI datacenters that need their own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids Feedly Summary: California utilities couldn’t deliver for hyperscalers’ favorite hardware-maker Its not just datacenters running AI that need their own energy sources: Taiwanese hardware manufacturer to the clouds Quanta has revealed the…
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The Register: Submer dives into $55.5M funding to cool down hot-blooded AI datacenters
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/03/submer_liquid_cooling_funding/ Source: The Register Title: Submer dives into $55.5M funding to cool down hot-blooded AI datacenters Feedly Summary: Tech’s consumption of water and energy driving interest in liquid cooling Cooling specialist Submer has scored $55.5 million in a fresh funding round to fuel expansion, touting its tech as part of a more sustainable…
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AlgorithmWatch: Why we need to audit algorithms and AI from end to end
Source URL: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/auditing-algorithms-and-ai-from-end-to-end/ Source: AlgorithmWatch Title: Why we need to audit algorithms and AI from end to end Feedly Summary: The full picture of algorithmic risks and harms is a complicated one. So how do we approach the task of auditing algorithmic systems? There are various attempts to simplify the picture into overarching, standardized frameworks;…
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Hacker News: Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal
Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/re-opened-three-mile-island-will-power-ai-data-centers-under-new-deal/ Source: Hacker News Title: Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is reviving the Three Mile Island nuclear plant to secure clean energy for its growing data center demands, particularly in support of generative AI and cloud…
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Hacker News: A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
Source URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/ Source: Hacker News Title: A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the environmental impacts of ChatGPT and data centers related to artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on their substantial energy and water consumption. This…