November 27, 2023 – Rhetoric in Digital Environments

Environmental impacts of AI: The Unquenchable Thirst

Shuvro Das1 year ago02 mins

A new study reveals the immense water footprint of AI chatbots like ChatGPT. Researchers at the University of Colorado and University of Texas found that training the GPT-3 model at a Microsoft data center in Texas consumed around 700,000 liters of water. This water usage is primarily due to the energy-intensive computing resources required to…

Collective Rewilding: What does Broken World thinking entail?

Shuvro Das1 year ago1 year ago03 mins

In “Rethinking Repair,” Steven J.Jackson(2014) says: “what happens when we take erosion, breakdown, and decay, rather than novelty, growth, and progress, as our starting points in thinking through the use of nature?” (p. 221). Our curatorial approach departs from the assumption of a world in flux, defined by uncertainty, fragmentation, and impermanence. Rather than see…