[LINK] OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text.

[Tom Worthington]

On 1/8/23 23:19, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Techscape
<info at editorial.theguardian.com> By: Chris Stokel-Walker
> 
> ... there’s another problem with AI – its environmental toll...

The energy use of AI is discussed in "Green AI" by Roy Schwartz, Jesse 
Dodge, Noah A. Smith, Oren Etzioni, in Communications of the ACM, 
December 2020. The authors noted that Amazon AWS was 50% powered by 
renewable energy: 
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/12/248800-green-ai/fulltext

Perhaps Australia could become an exporter of renewable energy embedded 
in Green AI models.

In 2017 some of my colleagues at ANU initiated a project to cover large 
areas of northern Australia with solar panels, and export the energy. 
The university invested $10m in research, and some of it is now being 
commercialized: 
https://regnet.anu.edu.au/research/research-projects/details/7787/zero-carbon-energy-asia-pacific

Options investigated included a cable to Singapore, & synthetic fuel in 
tankers. But an alternative was "Green Steel". The energy would be used 
to refine iron ore in Australia. The embedded energy would, in effect, 
be exported in the steel. The steel is much easier to ship than 
electrons, hydrogen, or ammonia. The same thing might be done with AI.

The world would send AI requests to Australia. These would be forwarded
to data-centers located at high capacity grid connections to solar and 
wind farms. AI models would be trained using the renewable energy, 
making an "AI battery", with the embedded energy stored in the models.


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Tom Worthington  http://www.tomw.net.au