Researchers Conduct Study on the Carbon Footprint of AI Text and Image Generation

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the AI community platform Hugging Face joined forces for a study on the environmental impact of certain types of AI, Engadget reported first.The beginning of the study, which was published online, notes the widespread rise of AI products and the systems that power them, the goal to implement the technology "comes at a steep cost to the environment, given the amount of energy these systems require and the amount of carbon that they emit."Researchers c...