WASHINGTON, Sept 3 — Across the globe, data servers are humming, consuming both megawatts and precious natural resources to bring life to our digital world.
“We can utilise AI in ways that enhance the climate requirements or we can ignore the climate requirements and find ourselves facing the consequences in a decade or so in terms of the impact.” OpenAI’s latest generation model, GPT-4, is trained on around 570 times more parameters — or inputs — than GPT-3, and the scale of these systems will only grow as AI becomes more powerful and ubiquitous.
The naysayers have it “backwards,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told reporters on a recent visit to his company’s headquarters in California.