Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
2 days agoAltman: You think AI is inefficient? Try raising a human
AI energy criticisms are exaggerated; humans have consumed vast resources over millennia, making AI energy use comparatively reasonable.
Despite ongoing speculation around an investment bubble that may be set to burst, artificial intelligence (AI) technology is here to stay. And while an over-inflated market may exist at the level of the suppliers, AI is well-developed and has a firm foothold among organisations of all sizes. But AI workloads place specific demands on IT infrastructure and on storage in particular. Data volumes can start big and then balloon, in particular during training phases as data is vectorised and checkpoints are created.