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Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by clankyclanker on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:15AM (#26329359)
> what's the proposal there?

That's what Google was afraid of: the alternative is to decide that the cost of the model isn't worth the effort (externalities < benefit) and to abandon it. Which might be the correct decision, but one that loses Google a lot of potential money.

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Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by nindalf on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:17PM (#26331424)
The paper didn't attempt to examine if the benefits of the model outweighed the costs. They calculated the total energy used and called it a day.
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Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by joshuamorton on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @01:01PM (#26332117)
Correct. It left it up to the model creators to potentially evaluate those tradeoffs for future models.
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Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by Nasrudith on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:45PM (#26335887)
I find the conclusions ludicrous. Should we also abandon particle accelerators because they use too much electrity for ill-defined benefits?

Really the claim is toxic academia style knife fighting for tenure at best.

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