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Generative AI hype, reality, and energy footprint.

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The 2 day Oxford Generative AI Summit on Oct 17-18 brought together an impressive roster of speakers from industry, policy, and academia to showcase and explore the trajectory of this rapidly growing field. Unsurprisingly, the industry perspective was upbeat, showcasing use cases in creating, advertising, marketing, and intelligent personal assistance (otherwise known as chatbots). The policy perspective was more circumspect with clear issues around intellectual property (of training datasets), legal responsibility for falsehoods and errors, and impacts on jobs. Another clear cause for concern is the energy needs of genAI models’ training and inference which is driving the boom in new power-hungry data centres. Charlie Wilson joined a panel to discuss these implications at both global and local scales. A video of the panel discussions will available soon online; watch this space for details!