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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

This guide provides Durham Tech students and staff with some important resources regarding Artificial Intelligence and machine learning tools.

Materials for workshop

The following materials have been adapted and provided for use in the library's AI workshop.  You can download them individually below or in the zipped folder on the left of the page.

Open these LLM Chatbot systems to complete the workshop example tasks. Participants will need to login in order to fully participate with the workshop as these systems require an account for document uploads.

Environmental Concerns:

Based on a report from Google: "In total, the median prompt...consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity...each prompt consumes 0.26 milliliters of water..." MIT Technology Review

Impact of Data Centers:

"...powered by natural gas turbines with back-up diesel generators. He says that the noise pollution...was off the charts. … They were like 90 decibels near our house,” he says." Smithsonian Magazine


Copyright Concerns:

“Anthropic [Claude] has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot...Anthropic had downloaded more than 7m digitized books that it “knew had been pirated”." The Guardian