Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (www.nature.com)
one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much...
Excess protein consumption in western societies can lead to cardiovascular risks (www.nature.com)
The bugs around the streetlight are being tricked to think they are going in a straight line. They are doing the aerial equivalent of an ant death spiral. (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14539407...
What the EU’s tough AI law means for research and ChatGPT (www.nature.com)
What a tease! Great apes pull hair and poke each other for fun (www.nature.com)
Climatologist Michael Mann wins defamation case: what it means for scientists (www.nature.com)
Signatures of a surface spin–orbital chiral metal - Nature (www.nature.com)
Cyberattacks on knowledge institutions are increasing: what can be done? (www.nature.com)
In one study, researchers analysed 58 cyberattacks between 1988 and 2022 on universities, schools and other organizations worldwide, and found that the frequency of attacks had increased since 2015 (H. Singh Lallie et al. Preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2307.07755; 2023). Information on the attacks was gleaned from publicly available...
It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life (www.nature.com)
Review of 2023 book: How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball. ISBN9781529095999
This AI learnt language by seeing the world through a baby’s eyes (www.nature.com)
All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different? (www.nature.com)
All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different? (www.nature.com)
Computers make mistakes and AI will make things worse — the law must recognize that (www.nature.com)
Seven technologies to watch in 2024 (www.nature.com)
Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills (www.nature.com)
Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time (www.nature.com)
For the first time, a rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) cloned in the laboratory has lived into adulthood — surviving for more than two years so far....
Significantly wetter or drier future conditions for one to two thirds of the world’s population (www.nature.com)
How CRISPR could yield the next blockbuster crop (www.nature.com)
Tasmanian devil die-off is shifting another predator’s genetics (www.nature.com)
Devil population crashes caused by contagious tumours have knock-on effects elsewhere in the food chain....