How big is AI's carbon footprint? | BBC News

limit AI on healthcare, technology and agriculture only

It's quite pedantic how modern journalism tends to repackage old issues as new. Take the segment on AI's carbon footprint, for example. This issue isn't unique to AI but pertains to cloud computing in general, similar to the scrutiny crypto faced during its peak. Perhaps the real conversation should be about computing in a more environmentally conscious way. This video itself, hosted on YouTube, consumes energy from YouTube's infrastructure, just as the BBC's hosting contributes to the carbon footprint. But, tossing 'AI' into a title does seem to boost clicks, doesn't it? Also, I'd push back on the comment made by the speaker from Hugging Face about not trusting tech companies building their own power plants: coming from a country grappling with severe energy shortages, I wouldn't be opposed to tech giants investing in energy, considering how much of it they use.

I'm just beginning to listen. The 'At what cost' quesion sticks out from my perspecticlve. Do we remember the people and the working conditions?

4:42, you’d think the reunification of Ireland would have been more prominent news.

We are so obsessed with technology that we would cover all farmers fields with solar panels so that we can starve while checking the news on our phones. I think the AI is already in charge and its no better than those that came before it. The AI will claim that "They were so bad that the crowd was still booing them when we came on!".

One factor i was wondering about in this context, google and others have put their datacenters into the ocean to safe up on cost to cool those suckers down. Still heat is produced and given up into the ocean. How much is that, what is its effect on the environment? The last gimp should have noticed by now that we have more heatwaves, so more heat into the ocean when the corals are dying in droves seems not so environmental friendly either.

Mining Mercury for it's metal's would be more sustainable, and kinder to earth, and that is a highly profitable space race waiting to happen 👍

Scientists are now saying, "The longer we stare at our cell phones, the greater the danger of becoming a zombie."

I think this show is the best thing the BBC does at the moment

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Elizier Yudkowsky warned AI could kill us all to maximize its own energy resources. "Yea, I'm gonna go ahead and need 100% of the water on the planet, sorry guys." -A.I.

this guest is brilliant... honest guy

People can be charged per thousand queries. Frivolous usage will disappear.

Wow good thing i know this sense i can do absolutely nothing about it its tech giants and they couldnt give any craps about it.

At the initial stage the carbon footprint can be high, but as the technologies develop, AI will use less and less energy. In a few years energy will be a non-issue.

Captain "we need more power"

Good👍

i dont undestand why that is a problem. Big projects require bigresources. maybe govt. can ask them to plant trees etc. else i dont understand the point of the video. for example, your channel also runs on electricity, right ? so should you stop BBC

I hope Apple is paying through the nose for using the 1971 hit, "All I Ever Need Is You" [Holiday/Reeves] by Sony and Cher! How old is Tim Cook anyway?

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