The Most Efficient AI Could Use More Electricity #Shorts

What if making AI more efficient ends up using more electricity?

It sounds absurd, but the episode explains the rebound effect as applied to computing. Chips improve, liquid cooling advances, and models can become smaller or more specialized. That reduces the cost of each task. But if a query becomes cheaper, we can make a hundred times more queries, and total consumption can rise. This has happened with transportation, lighting, digital storage, and video. So efficiency is good news, but it doesn’t answer the key question: what deserves to be done, how many times, and under what rules.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/WJtWCrK4waU

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