How Big is the CO2 Footprint of AI Models? ChatGPT’s Emissions

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT is the tech industry’s hottest tool expected to revolutionize trillion-dollar businesses, but what does its carbon footprint mean for the planet?

Generative refers to the ability of an AI algorithm or model to produce complex data. These include creating a sentence or a paragraph, generating an image or a short video. 

While generative AI has long been used in applications, it only recently improved to produce human-like language and realistic images. It is booming, and so too its carbon emissions. 

Generative AI’s Carbon…