‘Firms need to move to adaptive, energy-efficient AI models’

Sarah Hooker is convinced that the future lies in AI systems that use less computing power, cost less to run and can adapt to the needs of users.

In the last 10 years, the Artificial Intelligence industry has focused on scaling AI models, building bigger models that can process more data. To build these models, there’s also been a race to build massive data centres that offer compute for these models and which cost billions of dollars and consume as much energy as a city.

Sara Hooker. (World Economic Forum)

However, since late last year, a growing chorus of AI researchers in conferences and scrolling halls of X has been announcing that the