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It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn – here's why AI is so power-hungry

  • Written by Kate Saenko, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
imageData centers like this Google facility in Iowa use copious amounts of electricity.Chad Davis/Flickr, CC BY-SA

This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type...

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