Follow up discussion on partner outreach for LLM model benchmarking and methodology.

[chrisxie-fw]

• Discussed partner outreach for LLM model benchmarking and methodology discussions.
  • Chris to continue outreach with article authors and hugging face developer.
  • Sean O to begin looking for responsible AI contacts at Microsoft and reach out to Symbiotic Labs and U of Michigan.

Originally posted by @sk16-dev in https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/scer/issues/40#issuecomment-2010282303

[seanmcilroy29]

From Charlene Wong (IMDA)

• What are the considerations of partner outreach and if we can support on it?
• You are looking for responsible AI contacts. While it might not be the same, I'm not sure if you have looked into NIST AI 600-Within it, there is guidance on responsible AI in sustainability. IBM Chief Sustainability Officer—en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamar_Eilam—would she be a resource partner you might be keen to work with?

[chrisxie-fw]

Thank you Charlene Wang for the kind inquiry on how to support SCER!

• Regarding partner outreach, companies, organizations who are producers and consumers or gatekeepers and hubs/hostings of AI models such as Huggingface, or big techs like MS, Google, Meta/Facebook, AWS, etc are potential beneficiaries of SCER, because SCER is creating an industry standard framework to evaluate/rate AI models that have significant impact to environment. Even government agencies may benefit from the SCER standard because it aligns with government's climate goals.

• Please feel free to invite the climate researchers or thought-leaders to our biweekly meeting. Please contact Sean to help arrange them to join our meetings.