Promine researcher Sasha Luccioni, who has done various activities to inform people about the environmeal impact of artificial ielligence and is also involved in the startup Hugging Face, warns that artificial ielligence is 30 times more productive than a traditional search engine. It consumes energy. According to him, the indiscriminate use of productive artificial ielligence tools accelerates the climate crisis.
According to the AFP report, Sascha Luccioni talked about the dangers of artificial ielligence on the environme on the sidelines of the ALL IN artificial ielligence conference in Moreal, Canada; “I find it frustrating to use generative AI as an iernet search engine,” he lameed. According to Luccioni, it is necessary to “explain to people what generative AI can and cannot do, and at what cost.”
It should be noted that this Canadian computer scieist was recognized by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influeial people in the world of artificial ielligence in 2024.
Effects of productive artificial ielligence on the climate crisis
The language models on which generative artificial ielligence tools are developed require huge computing resources to train with billions of data and powerful servers. Each user request from these tools also consumes a certain amou of energy.
Sascha Luccioni explains that AI tools should not be limited to simple information extraction, such as finding the capital of a coury; A simple search engine can also do this information. “We are accelerating the climate crisis,” he says.
In 2020, Luccioni helped create a tool called CodeCarbon for developers to show the carbon footpri of a piece of code as it runs. The tool has since been downloaded over a million times. Two years later, he published research to calculate the carbon produced by a large language model. The study estimated that BLOOM, then the world’s largest multilingual artificial ielligence model, had produced more than 50 tons of carbon dioxide over its life cycle. This amou is roughly equivale to 80 flights from London to New York.
He now was to do this on the business models of Google and OpenAI. Of course, it seems that these two companies are not willing to do such a thing.
Although Microsoft and Google have committed to becoming carbon neutral by the end of this decade, the tech gias saw their emissions increase in 2023 due to AI: 48 perce for Google compared to 2019 and 29 perce for Microsoft. to the year 2020.
