assistant professor, @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. machine learning: LLMs and climate. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them/dad (2 dogs).
pro-AI, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist.
Website: strubell.github.io
Emma Strubell
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If I were in charge of PBS or NPR I would be doing 24-7 programming right now about the end of PBS and NPR
As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...
Most LLM environmental reporting covers only the final pretraining runs. For Olmo 3, we measured every stage across all four variants: 7B and 32B, instruct and reasoning, and found that 82% of the compute went to development, all before the final runs 😱
In all fairness, Trump uses IQ in the most historically accurate way possible, as a way to do a racism in service of eugenics.
A project that would make energy more affordable and reliable for more than 40% of Americans is cancelled, just days before a new EO is released calling for accelerated funding and permitting for data center energy projects (including reducing and removing environmental review wherever possible).
Another thing this chart shows is that one of these groups is much more in touch with empirical reality than the other. Believing that whites face more discrimination than immigrants or Black people is like being a flat-earther.
Propaganda works.
Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial.
Platforming this kind of junk in 2025 is itself anti-science
Websites that use AI to transform photos into nonconsensual explicit imagery have become a lucrative business, and “Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to generative AI” has allowed them to persist. www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...
if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test
