Training a modest machine-learning model uses more carbon than the manufacturing and lifetime use of five automobiles

bcsizemo · June 7, 2019, 10:38pm

Explaining things to me in terms of pounds of carbon is pointless. You may as well be talking of a conversion into gold pressed latinum. How about kilowatts of energy? They are dealing with computers, I have a computer and it uses electricity too. Then we can go down the rabbit hole of carbon pounds per energy source.

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Training a modest machine-learning model uses more carbon than the manufacturing and lifetime use of five automobiles

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