The Hidden Power Bill of Artificial Intelligence with MIT's Vijay Gadepally

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Vijay Gadepally discusses the energy footprint of AI and potential efficiency improvements.

Vijay Gadepally joins Ed and Sara to break down the real energy footprint of AI—and why most people (and companies) are getting it wrong. They discuss: How "agentic" AI systems use an order of magnitude more energy than ChatGPT.Whether efficiency gains can keep pace with exploding usage (spoiler: not yet). The one simple change that could cut AI energy use by 80%. Vijay is Senior Scientist at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center and Co-Founder of Bay Compute ...

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Hosts: Ed, Sara

Guest: Vijay Gadepally

Topics covered

• Artificial Intelligence
• Energy Consumption
• Efficiency
• Technology
• Sustainability

Keywords

• AI energy footprint
• efficiency gains
• energy use reduction
• agentic AI
• ChatGPT

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MIT, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center, Bay Compute

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