As an , I often worry about the energy costs of building artificial intelligence models. The more powerful the AI, the more energy it takes. What does the emergence of increasingly more powerful generative AI models mean for societys future carbon footprint? “Generative” refers to the ability of an AI algorithm to produce complex data. The alternative is , which chooses between a fixed number of options and produces just a single number. An example of a discriminative output is choosing wheth
