40: Earth Week Special - Green AI with Ramya

The most recent IPCC report has reiterated that the climate crisis is an all hands on deck situation. We all need to think about the impact our actions have on the planet that provides our life support system. Ramya is a TPM on the Meta AI team and analyses the impact AI has, as it grows superlinearly, on energy use and carbon emissions. Her recent work on Green AI identifies ways for reducing that footprint without limiting the options engineers have for building great products for connecting people. Got feedback? Send it to us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/metatechpod), Instagram (https://instagram.com/metatechpod) and don’t forget to follow our host @passy (https://twitter.com/passy). Fancy working with us? Check out https://www.metacareers.com/.   Acronyms:

• LCA: Life Cycle Assessment
• PUE: Power Usage Efficiency

Links:

• Sustainable AI: Environmental Implications, Challenges and Opportunities: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00364
• Make an Impact for Earth Day: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/04/make-an-impact-for-earth-day/
• Green AI SchrepTech: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/how-ai-is-helping-address-the-climate-crisis/

Timestamps:

• Intro 0:05
• Intro Ramya 2:13
• The Cost of AI 3:05
• Measuring AI's Carbon Footprint 11:00
• Trade Offs 13:28
• Calculating the Carbon Intensity 16:01
• Mitigation Options 18:36
• Cultural Changes 25:35
• Societal Value 26:13
• Running AI on Edge Devices 29:02
• What's Next? 32:33
• Outro 34:55