Sustainable ai: Environmental implications, challenges and opportunities

CJ Wu, R Raghavendra, U Gupta… - Proceedings of …, 2022 - proceedings.mlsys.org
This paper explores the environmental impact of the super-linear growth trends for AI from a
holistic perspective, spanning Data, Algorithms, and System Hardware. We characterize the …

Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation

LH Kaack, PL Donti, E Strubell, G Kamiya… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
There is great interest in how the growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning may
affect global GHG emissions. However, such emissions impacts remain uncertain, owing in …

On the opportunities and risks of foundation models

R Bommasani, DA Hudson, E Adeli, R Altman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
AI is undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of models (eg, BERT, DALL-E, GPT-3) that are
trained on broad data at scale and are adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks. We …

Measuring the carbon intensity of ai in cloud instances

J Dodge, T Prewitt, R Tachet des Combes… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The advent of cloud computing has provided people around the world with unprecedented
access to computational power and enabled rapid growth in technologies such as machine …

Power hungry processing: Watts driving the cost of AI deployment?

S Luccioni, Y Jernite, E Strubell - The 2024 ACM Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen a surge in the popularity of commercial AI products based on
generative, multi-purpose AI systems promising a unified approach to building machine …

Beyond efficiency: A systematic survey of resource-efficient large language models

G Bai, Z Chai, C Ling, S Wang, J Lu, N Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The burgeoning field of Large Language Models (LLMs), exemplified by sophisticated
models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, represents a significant advancement in artificial …

Counting carbon: A survey of factors influencing the emissions of machine learning

AS Luccioni, A Hernandez-Garcia - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.08476, 2023 - arxiv.org
Machine learning (ML) requires using energy to carry out computations during the model
training process. The generation of this energy comes with an environmental cost in terms of …

An experimental comparison of software-based power meters: focus on CPU and GPU

M Jay, V Ostapenco, L Lefèvre… - 2023 IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The global energy demand for digital activities is constantly growing. Computing nodes and
cloud services are at the heart of these activities. Understanding their energy consumption is …

Reporting electricity consumption is essential for sustainable AI

C Debus, M Piraud, A Streit, F Theis… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Reporting electricity consumption is essential for sustainable AI | Nature Machine Intelligence
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Towards green automated machine learning: Status quo and future directions

T Tornede, A Tornede, J Hanselle, F Mohr… - Journal of Artificial …, 2023 - jair.org
Automated machine learning (AutoML) strives for the automatic configuration of machine
learning algorithms and their composition into an overall (software) solution—a machine …