Estimating the Increase in Emissions caused by AI-augmented Search
<|reference_start|>Estimating the Increase in Emissions caused by AI-augmented Search: AI-generated answers to conventional search queries dramatically increase the energy consumption. By our estimates, energy demand increase by 60-70 times. This is a based on an updated estimate of energy consumption for conventional search and recent work on the energy demand of queries to the BLOOM model, a 176B parameter model, and OpenAI's ChatGPT, which is of similar complexity.<|reference_end|>
@article{vanderbauwhede2024estimating,
    title={Estimating the Increase in Emissions caused by AI-augmented Search},
    author={Wim Vanderbauwhede},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16894},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.16894},
    primaryClass={cs.CY cs.AI}
}