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X-WR-CALNAME:AI in Your Toolkit: A Discussion on the Environmental Impact o
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DESCRIPTION:AI in your Toolkit Series\n\nThis session is the first in a six
 -part workshop series called AI in your Toolkit: Critical approaches to us
 ing AI in your work. Learn more about the series and find session material
 s on the AI in your Toolkit website.\n\nSession Overview \n\nThis discussi
 on session will focus on the environmental impact of generative AI. We wil
 l begin by providing a brief overview of the research on AI’s energy and
  water usage and what you can do about it\, and then open the floor for pa
 rticipants to offer reactions to several guided questions. We hope to have
  a lively discussion\, but encourage you to attend the session even if you
  do not intend to participate in the question-and-answer section. \n\nLear
 ning Objectives\n\n    •    Describe the different ways in which generat
 ive AI consumes energy.\n    •    Summarize some of the evidence regardi
 ng AI’s energy demands and use of fossil fuels.\n    •    Begin to eva
 luate what systems-level solutions might help minimize AI’s environmenta
 l impacts.\n\nPresenters\n\nYea Hung Chen is a Data Science Specialist. He
  leads workshops on R and provides one-on-one consultations and data scien
 ce and R.Eileen Chen is an Education and Research Librarian. She offers su
 pport with literature searching\, data management\, and open access publis
 hing.Ariel Deardorff is the Director of Data Science and Open Scholarship.
  She leads a team focused on empowering researchers to engage with open re
 search and reproducible data-driven science.Josephine Tan is an Education 
 and Clinical Research Librarian. She teaches curriculum-integrated literat
 ure searching and citation management skills and specializes in medical ed
 ucation research.Holly Thompson is the Director of Education and Clinical 
 Research Services. She leads a team of librarians who support the educatio
 n and research missions of the UCSF professional schools\, UCSF Health\, Z
 uckerberg San Francisco General Hospital\, and Benioff Children’s Hospit
 al Oakland.Accessibility\n\nUCSF welcomes all participants to our events. 
 If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event becaus
 e of a disability\, please contact Ariel Deardorff at ariel.deardorff@ucsf
 .edu as soon as possible.
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SUMMARY:AI in Your Toolkit: A Discussion on the Environmental Impact of AI
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.ucsf.edu/event/ai-in-your-toolkit-environmen
 tal-impact-of-ai
CATEGORIES:Professional Development
CATEGORIES:Research & Academia
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