Another approach to estimating AI’s environmental footprint is to add up the energy use of the infrastructure used to build the models themselves. Meta’s Llama 3.1, a large language model (LLM), for ...

University of Michigan provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. A neural network is a computational model consisting of layers of interconnected neurons. Like the neurons in your ...

In a Nature Communications study, researchers from China have developed an error-aware probabilistic update (EaPU) method that aligns memristor hardware's noisy updates with neural network training, ...

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. AI’s integration into our lives is ...

Last December physicists working on fusion claimed a breakthrough. A team at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California announced it had extracted more energy from a controlled nuclear fusion ...

ONE HUNDRED years from now, the Earth is in the throes of an environmental apocalypse. Mutant spores released by humans—specifically, a hapless former logger called Vick—have led to the planet being ...