Montreal: If you care about the environment, you need to think a hundred times before using AI technology.
Researcher Sasha Lucioni has warned that he is on a mission to raise awareness of the environmental impact of this new technology as creative artificial intelligence is consuming 30 times more energy than traditional search engines.
In 2024, according to the American magazine Time, Russian-Canadian computer scientist Sasha Lucioni is known as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in terms of AI. Found out.
“I find it particularly disappointing that generative AI is used to search the Internet,” Sasha said at the All In Artificial Intelligence conference in Montreal.
He added that the language models on which AI programs are based require a lot of computing power and powerful servers to train on billions of data points, which affects the environment.
