Warming Up

Two items on Twitter made a passing mention on the connection between AI and power consumption:

17/ With enough compute to raise planet temperature by 0.1°C, they failed to show interesting results or address useful research problems.

— Alex J. Champandard (@alexjc) 6 mars 2017

(on the order of 3 million Americans' yearly electricity use for all Go players in the world to run their own AlphaGo for an hour)

— Miles Brundage (@Miles_Brundage) 10 mars 2016

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