In their defense, I'm sure there are tons of actually useful machine learning models that don't use that much power once trained.
I have an iPhone with Face ID and I think the way they did that was to train a model on lots of people's faces, and they just ship that expensive-to-train model with the operating system and then it trains a little bit more when you use face ID. I can't imagine it uses that much power since you're running the algorithm every time you open the phone.
I'm sure any model worth anything probably does require a lot of training and energy usage. I guess it really depends on the eventual utility whether it's worth it.
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In their defense, I'm sure there are tons of actually useful machine learning models that don't use that much power once trained.
I have an iPhone with Face ID and I think the way they did that was to train a model on lots of people's faces, and they just ship that expensive-to-train model with the operating system and then it trains a little bit more when you use face ID. I can't imagine it uses that much power since you're running the algorithm every time you open the phone.
I'm sure any model worth anything probably does require a lot of training and energy usage. I guess it really depends on the eventual utility whether it's worth it.