Sustainable AI with Darshna Shah

About this episode

Richard chats with Darshna Shah about making artificial intelligence more sustainable and the efficiency challenges in the current landscape of large language models.

How does artificial intelligence become more sustainable? Richard chats with Darshna Shah about her experiences as Chief AI Officer at Elastic. Darshna discusses the resources required to run large language model experiments, the pressure this has put on the electrical grid, and more. The conversation turns to efficiency - and the idea that there is little incentive in the current land grab around LLMs to be more efficient - that the focus is on growing quickly. But as technologies mature, efficiency becomes a key competitive advantage!

People in this episode

Host: Richard Campbell

Guest: Darshna Shah

Topics covered

• sustainable AI
• large language models
• efficiency
• technology
• business
• careers

Keywords

• sustainable AI
• artificial intelligence
• large language models
• efficiency
• electrical grid
• technology
• business

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Elastic

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