This piece by Chris Stokel-Walker in the Guardian gives a good overview of the environmental footprint of #AI - and argues that it’s just as bad as that of #crypto / #web3.
“Technology analysts Gartner believe that by 2025, unless a radical rethink takes place in how we develop AI systems to better account for their environmental impact, the energy consumption of AI tools will be greater than that of the entire human workforce”.
So it’s interesting that this gets so much less attention than the environmental impact of Web3.
Side note: Chris highlights the work done by Sasha Luccioni at Hugging Face, calling the company the “de facto conscience of the AI industry”, which is correct.