Articles for category: Artificial Intelligence, Conservation, Energy

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The Hidden Carbon Cost of AI: What It Takes to Train a Supercomputer Brain

Trizzy Orozco

The world loves to marvel at artificial intelligence—the poetic conversations with chatbots, the dreamy artwork conjured by algorithms, and the jaw-dropping abilities of machines to learn, create, and predict. But behind every headline-grabbing feat of AI, there’s an invisible story unfolding: a story of energy, emissions, and a carbon footprint many never imagined. Picture this: ...

When AI Gets Creative: The Strange Case of Art-Generating Algorithms That Made Their Own Style

AI Uncovers a Potential Trigger for Alzheimer’s and a Promising Treatment

April Joy Jovita

Artificial intelligence has played a pivotal role in uncovering a potential trigger for Alzheimer’s disease and identifying a promising treatment. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found that an enzyme called phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PHGDH) may not only serve as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s but could also be a causal factor in the ...

How Ancient Animal Brains Are Inspiring the Next Generation of AI Neural Networks

How Ancient Animal Brains Are Inspiring the Next Generation of AI Neural Networks

Trizzy Orozco

Imagine a world where the brains of long-extinct creatures—tiny insects, ancient fish, even the first animals to crawl onto land—hold the secret blueprints to tomorrow’s most advanced artificial intelligence. It sounds like a wild sci-fi plot twist, but it’s happening right now. As scientists race to build smarter machines, they’re looking backward, not just forward, ...

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Can an AI Go Insane? The Strange Behavior of Unsupervised Systems

Picture this: a computer program that suddenly starts “hallucinating” cats in static, or a chatbot that spins wild, nonsensical tales about intergalactic squirrels. It sounds like science fiction—or maybe the beginning of a nightmare. But as artificial intelligence seeps deeper into our daily lives, a strange and unsettling question lingers in the air: Can an ...

People Are Using AI To Talk To The Dead And The Results Are Deeply Unsettling

People Are Using AI To Talk To The Dead And The Results Are Deeply Unsettling

Sumi

  There’s a quiet revolution happening in grief, and it doesn’t involve therapists’ couches or self-help books. It’s happening on phones and laptops, where people are uploading old voice notes, text messages, and social media posts to train AI chatbots that speak back as if they were their dead parents, partners, or friends. The idea ...

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The Time a Machine Learning Model Invented a Bizarre New Sport

Trizzy Orozco

It began with a flicker on a computer screen—a moment so quietly revolutionary that few noticed at first. Scientists had fed thousands of hours of sports footage and countless rulebooks into a powerful machine learning model, hoping to find patterns or maybe invent something new. What they got was not just statistical analysis or improved ...

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AI Cold War: Why Global Powers Are Racing to Teach Machines Faster Than Ever

Trizzy Orozco

It’s a contest that feels ripped from the pages of a futuristic thriller: nations locked in a breakneck race to teach machines how to think, reason, and outsmart their rivals. The 21st-century battleground isn’t a dusty field, but the humming, invisible world of artificial intelligence. Today, the stakes are higher than ever—global security, economic power, ...

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Training AI on Human Behavior: What Happens When the Internet Is the Teacher?

Trizzy Orozco

Imagine handing over the keys to the world’s most powerful supercomputer and saying, “Learn everything you can—by watching us online.” It’s a dizzying, almost frightening idea: the internet, with all its chaos and brilliance, has become the classroom for artificial intelligence. Every meme, every tweet, every candid comment in a forum—AI is soaking it all ...