Council Post: We Need To Talk About An Energy Label For AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) can distinguish a dog from a cat, but the billions of calculations needed to do so demand quite a lot of energy. The human brain can do the same thing while using only a small fraction of this energy. Could this phenomenon inspire us to develop more energy-efficient AI systems? Our computational power has risen exponentially, enabling the widespread use of artificial intelligence, a technology that relies on processing huge amounts of data to recognize patterns. When we use the recommendation algorithm of our favorite streaming service, we usually don't realize the gigantic energy consumption behind it.