The business case for rightsizing AI is also an environmental one
Deployment must match the scale of the model with the task
ARTIFICIAL intelligence has become a boardroom priority, but chief executive officers are not considering its environmental footprint highly in the race to deploy it.
By now, many of us have heard the headline-grabbing statistics about AI’s energy and water use.
One widely cited estimate suggests that generating a single image using a powerful AI model can take as much energy as fully charging a smartphone.
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