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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by ardit33 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:32AM (#25313098)
You have to point the alternative costs though.... if non AI trained search, returned worse results, would that waste more energy?

She didn't... which are the hallmark of bad research.

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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @05:12AM (#25313296)
How do you know?

You're reading a non technical summary of an article, and taking it as gospel.

I think I'm going to wait to see the paper before deciding whether or not it's good.

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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by CyberRabbi on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:37AM (#25313124)
Yes I agree. A substantive analysis of carbon emission should look at multiple countries, multiple industries, multiple companies, and all the outputs from those companies to give a good picture of what types of outputs are the most inefficient w.r.t. carbon emission.
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