Last year, at Viva Technology (aka VivaTech), I hosted a round table session for a select few attendees keen to find out more about AI. This year, not only were sustainable AI luminaries Sasha Luccioni (Climate & AI Lead, Hugging Face) and Kate Kallot (Founder & CEO, Amini) invited to speak on 3 different sessions … Continue reading Viva la Sustainable AI, enfin?
"We can't quantify AI's impact, we don't have enough precise data." Oh really? It's largely in reaction to assertions like this that I first set about compiling the above stats, late 2024. Because, whilst a lot of figures floating around are questionable - most famously the assertion that 1 request to ChatGPT uses as much … Continue reading AI’s Impacts, how to limit them, and why (updated)
Announced as “the Olympics of AI”, France’s AI Action Summit, which just ended here in Paris, was supposed to find new meaning for artificial intelligence, notably defining a way for European AI to compete with US and Chinese domination of this still much-hyped sector. In short, it claimed to answer tech bros’ favourite question: how … Continue reading Is AI making the world a worse place?
Full disclosure: this article was originally published on my current employer's blog Has the the breakneck speed of change and hype since late 2022's ChatGPT-fuelled generative AI explosion given us enough time to fully assess generative AI’s true impact on the planet? Let’s take a look. The impact, in figures First and foremost, it’s now … Continue reading Can AI be sustainable?
