An MIT study of generative AI language learning models has shown that they are bad for the environment. Researchers claim that training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as 5 cars in their lifetimes.
In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, performed a life cycle assessment for training several common large AI models. They found that the process can emit more than 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent—nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average American car (and that includes manufacture of the car itself).
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