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Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by nurettin on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:54AM (#31665187)
>> Not to mention that training a model is a "one time deal", where a successfully trained model can be reused by a lot of client (devices).

you are right, but never underestimate the collective stupidity of large software departments where they retrain every time someone makes a commit into their CI/CD pipelines.

Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by ben_w on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @07:31AM (#31665821)
I hope they’d notice that the server energy bill was higher than the salary cost of the developers making the commits in this hypothetical scenario. That said, hope isn’t generally sufficient, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens in at least one organisation.