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☆ ChatGPT’s boss claims nuclear fusion is the answer to AI’s soaring energy needs. Experts say not so fast
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Yet according to Sam Altman, head of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, there is a clear solution to this tricky dilemma: nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion — the process that powers the sun and other stars — is likely still decades away from being mastered and commercialized on Earth. A section of JT-60SA, a huge experimental nuclear fusion reactor at Naka Fusion Institute in Naka city of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, on January 22, 2024. The sector was responsible for around 2% of global electricity demand in 2022, according to the IEA. But, he cautioned, this doesn’t necessarily mean AI’s electricity demand will fall.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Altman, “, Lex Fridman, ” Altman, —, Alex de Vries, ”, Aneeqa Khan, ” Khan, Philip Fong, Vries, ” de Vries, Michael Khoo, “ We’re, Khoo, Yiannis Kourtoglou, Sen, Ed Markey, ” Markey, ” Khoo Organizations: CNN, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Manchester, “, JT, Naka Fusion, Getty, International Energy Agency, Boston Consulting, Reuters, Microsoft, OpenAI, Boston Consulting Group, Google, Princeton, ” Locations: “, Naka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, AFP, Pascal, Nicosia, Cyprus

VOORBURG, Netherlands (AP) — Cans of fish, jars of pasta sauce and bags of beans are stacked in blue crates. Meat, dairy and bread are kept cold in a huge freezer and a walk-in refrigerator in this affluent Dutch town. “There is a long list of things we need to do to challenge that cost-of-living crisis,” he told reporters at a campaign event. That shot up to 250 as a cost-of-living crisis swept across the world and did not spare the wealthy Netherlands. The Leidschendam-Voorburg food bank Kuipers oversees estimates that the true number of people eligible for food aid could be two to three times higher.

Persons: ”, Rob Kuipers, Maurice Crul, Pieter Omtzigt, Mark Rutte —, “, Frans Timmermans, Kuipers Organizations: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Democrat, People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, Union, . Locations: Netherlands, Leidschendam, The Hague

☆ What an isolated community in Africa may be able to teach about child care
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The children had a high degree of physical contact and care for most of time they were observed. Nikhil ChaudharyResponses to cryingWhat was notable, Chaudhary said, wasn’t necessarily the amount of care children received, but that mothers weren’t responsible for all of it. Other caregivers — fathers, older siblings and nonrelatives — were responsible for 38% to 46% of close care, according to the study. The mean number of caregivers other than a child’s mother was 14.4, but these weren’t all adults. “How representative would a day care center with 18 children in inner-city London be of childhood … anywhere?” he asked.

Persons: “, ”, Nikhil Chaudhary, ” Chaudhary, Chaudhary, ’, —, reexamine, wasn’t, nonrelatives —, …, Jennifer Lansford, Malcolm Gillis, ” Lansford, Carlo Schuengel, ” Schuengel, ” Marc Bornstein, we’re Organizations: CNN, Leverhulme, University of Cambridge, “, Central African, Center for Child, Duke University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Locations: Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, North Carolina, London

☆ STUDIU: Incendiile ''zombie'' riscă să fie ''mai frecvente şi mai catastrofale'' odată cu schimbarea climei
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-19 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Într-un an, însă, ''incendiile zombie'' au fost responsabile de 38% dintre regiunile arse, scrie agerpres.ro. Pe măsură ce schimbările climatice aridizează peisajele şi conduc la creşterea numărului de incendii violente pe perioada verii, aceste ''incendii zombie'' vor deveni probabil mai frecvente, a precizat cercetătorul. Pentru a calcula amploarea ''incendiilor zombie'' dintr-o zonă, cercetătorii au conceput un algoritm computerizat care ia în considerare imaginile satelitare, datele privind fulgerel şi prezenţa umană şi infrastructura. Pentru a supravieţui pe timpul iernii, incendiile trebuie să ardă la temperaturi deosebit de ridicate şi în profunzime, sugerează studiul. ''Ceea ce în trecut a fost un fenomen relativ rar ar putea deveni ceva mai frecvent şi mai catastrofal'', a subliniat Fresco.

Persons: Reuters, Sander Organizations: Universitatea din Locations: ştiinţă, Olanda, Alaska, SUA, Teritoriile de Nord, Vest, Canadei, Amsterdam, Teritoriile de Nord - Vest, Canada, Siberia, Rusiei, Nancy, Universitatea din Alaska, Fairbanks

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