Watt’s up with AI?: Saving Open Source | Lionel Ringenbach

Lionel Ringenbach presents tools estimating AI energy, carbon, and water use, critiques opaque “closed” AI, and proposes incentives for token-saving to protect open source maintainers.

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📍 Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
1:18 — Talk begins
2:57 — Tools & metrics
7:00 — Google report
11:00 — Open source challenges
12:38 — Token award
15:16 — Save tokens idea
16:22 — Q&A ⁠
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