Sasha Luccioni, once an AI researcher, left her job due to climate anxiety and now advocates for environmentally sustainable AI practices as the Climate Lead at Hugging Face. She suggests using small language models (SLMs) that are energy-efficient for specific tasks instead of larger models that require more energy. Reports indicate that AI is increasing energy usage, with data centers potentially consuming 12% of U.S. electricity by 2028. Despite pledging to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030 or 2040, tech giants continue to expand data center infrastructures, raising environmental concerns.
"I essentially was getting more and more climate anxiety. I was really feeling this profound disconnect between my job and my values and the things that I cared about."
"Nowadays, more companies are like, 'For our intents and purposes, we want to summarize PDFs.' You don't need a general purpose model for that."
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