Exploring the motivations and challenges in creating general AI models driven by major tech companies, and the impact on power dynamics in the industry. The chapter also discusses the environmental repercussions of relying on specific companies like Nvidia for GPUs and the lack of transparency in the chip manufacturing supply chain.
Paris Marx is joined by Sasha Luccioni to discuss the catastrophic environmental costs of the generative AI being increasing shoved into every tech product we touch.
Sasha Luccioni is an artificial intelligence researcher and Climate Lead at Hugging Face.
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