Can the planet really afford the exorbitant power demands of machine learning?
By: John Naughton November 16, 2019 There is, alas, no such thing as a free lunch. This simple and obvious truth is invariably forgotten whenever irrational exuberance teams up with digital technology in the latest quest to “change the world”. A case in point was the bitcoin frenzy, where one could apparently become insanely rich […]