Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk & Andreas Grün | Responsible AI for carbon neutrality | Rise of AI 2023

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Discover how responsible AI can drive carbon neutrality, reducing energy consumption and improving user engagement through personalized recommendations, efficient models, and transparent algorithms.

Key takeaways
  • AI can reduce energy consumption of platforms by 98%
  • Looking at individual user interactions, rather than masses of data, can help reduce data processing and energy consumption
  • Specialized algorithms and data structures can make a significant impact on energy efficiency
  • The concept of “green recommendations” prioritizes user preferences over popular content to reduce energy consumption
  • The team used a sequential model that is highly adaptive to user behavior, and a minimalist approach to achieve better results
  • Carbon neutrality is a sustainability goal for platforms
  • The cold start problem is a major challenge in recommendation systems, where AI can help with user profile generation
  • Explainability is key in AI systems, allowing users to understand what drives recommendations
  • Zero-shot learning and few-shot learning can help solve data scarcity and quality issues
  • Efficient models can process a large volume of data while reducing energy consumption and computational resources
  • Public service media broadcasting platforms, such as MediaTick, aim to reduce energy consumption through AI-driven solutions
  • AI-powered systems can improve user engagement by 20%, reducing the fear of recommendation algorithms
  • Sustainability is a priority in AI development, with focuses on transparency, explainability, and efficiency
  • Personalization through AI can increase user engagement and energy efficiency, but also requires careful management of user data
  • Language models are key to AI development, allowing for more efficient and accurate processing of large volumes of data