Randy Goebel: Why the Global South Can Still Lead on AI
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Randy Goebel discusses the potential for the Global South to redefine the future of AI amidst sustainability challenges.
AI today is powered by massive models, massive energy, and massive capital concentration. But what if this trajectory is essentially unsustainable? And what if the Global South could redefine the future of AI?Randy Goebel, an AI scientist and advocate of open science, explores the sustainability crisis behind large language models and the costly cycles that define AI’s history. He also emphasizes that for Southeast Asia and the Global South, the future of AI depends not on hardware, but on building and sustaining intellectual capital. ---------------------- About the Guest: Randy Goebel is a computer scientist and professor of computing science in the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada. He's known for his work in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, logic-based reasoning, and explainable AI (XAI). Goebel also helped found the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII) and has been deeply involved in AI research and teaching.#Endgame #GitaWirjawan #RandyGoebel------------------------ You might also like:https://youtu.be/xUdCSq4W1Kk?si=mVh92mCGznE4GEmp https://youtu.be/WNcW2jHGrtk?si=dVprUeByatSeOfFh…
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