This position paper advocates a practical solution by making efficiency an evaluation criterion for research alongside accuracy and related measures. In addition, we propose reporting the financial cost or "price tag" of developing, training, and running models to provide baselines for the investigation of increasingly efficient methods. Our goal is to make AI both greener and more inclusive — enabling any inspired undergraduate with a laptop to write high-quality research papers.
Roy Schwartz, Jesse Dodge, Noah A. Smith, Oren Etzioni: Green AI.