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Generative AI is an energy hog. Is the tech worth the environmental cost?

Generative AI and the hype around it has rung in excitement and alarm bells this year. Here’s how to consider climate, energy and AI's intersection.

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  1. Tech

    Feather-inspired airplane flaps could boost flight performance

    Rows of flaps inspired by bird wing feathers improve airfoil performance by boosting lift, reducing drag and mitigating stall.

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  2. Humans

    A phone app could help people have lucid dreams

    New experiments show that an app developed by researchers can boost snoozing users’ likelihood of knowing when they are having a dream.

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  3. Psychology

    Smiles tweaked by AI can boost attraction, a speed-dating study shows

    Using face filters to alter expressions manipulated feelings of attraction, raising questions about how such technology may influence social interactions.

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  4. Science & Society

    Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century

    A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

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  5. Tech

    Tech companies want small nuclear reactors. Here’s how they’d work 

    To fuel AI’s insatiable energy appetite, tech companies are going big on small nuclear reactors.

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  6. Artificial Intelligence

    The discovery of tools key to machine learning wins the 2024 physics Nobel

    John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton used tools from physics to develop data analysis methods that underlie machine learning.

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  7. Agriculture

    ‘Smart lighting’ might make vertical farming more affordable

    A new computer program adjusts grow lights to cut down on electric bills without sacrificing photosynthesis.

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  8. Computing

    This engineer’s light-based computers take inspiration from the brain

    Physicist and engineer Bhavin Shastri is working to create the first photonic computer modeled after the human brain.

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  9. Artificial Intelligence

    Talking to a chatbot may weaken someone’s belief in conspiracy theories

    AI might help lift conspiracy theorists out of the rabbit hole, but some researchers say proceed with caution.

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