Charting the true cost of AI
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week, the academic Kate Crawford tells us how she travelled the world to find the true cost of AI. Reporter Chris Vallance updates us on a watermark system - developed by Deepmind, Google's AI arm - which aims to show whether an image was generated by a machine or designed by a human. Mansoor Hamayun, Co-Founder and CEO of Bboxx tells us about the company's smart cooking valve, designed to protect lives - and trees - in Rwanda. We speak to Fu’ad Lawal, the founder of Archivi.ng,and archivist Grace Abraham, about why the key to Nigeria's tech future may lie in digitsing newspapers from its past.
(Picture credit: an imagined digital landscape, by Andriy Onufriyenko, for Getty images)
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| 1:00.2 | the woman who's travelled the world to find out the true cost of AI. Compared to say a traditional |
| 1:05.5 | search engine using GPT is up to a thousand times more energy intensive. |
| 1:11.4 | Another study has indicated that every time you have a conversation with chat, GPT, |
| 1:15.7 | an exchange, if you will, this is the equivalent of pouring a full litre of fresh water onto the ground. |
| 1:22.9 | As image generators race ahead in sophistication, how do we tell if a picture was created by human or computer? |
| 1:29.8 | I'll give you a hint. It's not all about the hands. DeepMind thinks it might have the start of an answer. |
| 1:35.3 | We find out about the smart device aiming to cut fuel poverty in Rwanda and... |
| 1:41.0 | There is really no information age without information and what happens to us to Nigerians when our information is not well represented. |
| 1:48.6 | Why archiving old newspapers is so important for new tech opportunities in Nigeria. How do we tell how much the discussion about artificial intelligence has entered the global conversation? |
| 2:17.2 | Well, here's one good indicator. |
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