人工智能和人类编程对环境可持续性的比较研究
1Saratoga High School, Saratoga, USA. nolan.h.woo@gmail.com.
Scientific reports
|November 10, 2025
概括
这项研究比较了人工智能和人类程序员对环境的影响. 虽然一些AI模型是高效的,但像GPT-4这样的大型模型比人类程序员排放的温室气体要多得多.
科学领域:
- 计算机科学 计算机科学
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 人工智能的人工智能
背景情况:
- 人工智能 (AI) 对环境的影响越来越令人担忧.
- 之前的研究声称人工智能碳足迹比人类作家低.
- 这些比较往往忽略了输出质量和正确性的关键因素.
研究的目的:
- 客观地比较人类和人工智能程序员生成功能相同的代码对环境的影响.
- 量化评估AI在代码生成中的环境影响,同时控制输出正确性.
- 评估人工智能模型尺寸,效率和环境成本之间的权衡.
主要方法:
- 利用美国计算奥林匹克数据库来评估多个基于GPT的模型.
- 开发了用于对AI代码生成的正确性控制评估的基础设施.
- 实施了多轮校正过程,以解决AI响应的不准确性.
- 计算的AI排放 (使用和体现) 和人类排放 (估计的计算功率消耗).
主要成果:
- 更小的AI模型可以在成功时与人类程序员实现环境平价,但经常失败.
- 广泛使用的标准人工智能模型显示环境压力明显更高.
- 对于同等代码生成任务,GPT-4的温室气体排放量 (CO2eq) 比人类程序员的排放量多5到19倍.
结论:
- 人工智能代码生成的环境成本高度依赖于模型大小和性能.
- 像GPT-4这样更大,更具能力的AI模型与人类程序员相比,具有相当大的环境权衡.
- 需要进一步的研究来优化AI在代码生成中的环境可持续性.
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