Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
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Re: Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
#2The next step, of course, is to let the AI know which servers in the server-farm itself is running on so that it can optimize for self preservation.
Re: Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
#3This is kind of thrilling... the somewhat generalized use for an AI with such a concrete benefit.
Re: Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
#4The next step, of course, is to let the AI know which servers in the server-farm itself is running on so that it can optimize for self preservation.
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Re: Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
#5They need to find some medium sized city that will let them play with their traffic lights.
Re: Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
#6Very frustrating read. Read more like an advertisement than an informative article.
The claims made would've made for a very interesting tech-dive into a novel use of machine intelligence, but no details were provided.
Re: Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
#7Very frustrating read. Read more like an advertisement than an informative article. The claims made would've made for a very interesting tech-dive into a novel use of machine intelligence, but no details were provided.
It's a shame too because one of the inhibiting factors of AI as complex as DeepMind is the fact it isn't cost effective due to its power consumption for quite a few tasks.
Re: Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
#8This is very similar to DART where DARPA was able to recover all of its investment to AI and a testament to its pragmatism. Also both are logistical problems. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin...
Re: Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
#9Very frustrating read. Read more like an advertisement than an informative article. The claims made would've made for a very interesting tech-dive into a novel use of machine intelligence, but no details were provided.
It's a shame too because one of the inhibiting factors of AI as complex as DeepMind is the fact it isn't cost effective due to its power consumption for quite a few tasks.
"In recent months, the Alphabet Inc. unit put a DeepMind AI system in control of parts of its data centers to reduce power consumption by manipulating computer servers and related equipment like cooling systems. It uses a similar technique to DeepMind software that taught itself to play Atari video games, Hassabis said in an interview at a recent AI conference in New York."
This part really incensed me. That's like describing SpaceX's rocket "as being based on similar technology as Wernher von Braun's V2 rockets in World War 2". I exaggerate for effect, but you get the point.
Edit: formatting.
Re: Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
#10They saved "several percentage points" off of 4.4M MWh, so maybe 250M KWH, which might be $10-20M. At 30x earnings [1], they just made back most if not all of the purchase price of Deepmind [2]