The Download: AI’s energy future

This is today's edition of the download, our weekday newsletter, which offers a daily dose of what is going on in the world of technology. Video: AI and our energy future in May, Technology Review published an unprecedented and comprehensive overview of how much energy the AI ​​industry uses - a single query. Our reporters and editors have found that AI's CO2 footprint is now standing and where it drives to billions of daily users as AI. We have just created a short video to accompany this examination. You can read the original full story here. AI changes the network. Could it help more than it harms? The increasing popularity of AI leads to an increase in electricity requirements, which is so significant that it has the potential to redesign the network. The energy consumption by data centers rose by 80% from 2020 to 2025 and will probably continue to grow. Electricity prices are already increasing, especially in places where the data centers are most concentrated. However, many people, especially in Big Tech, argue that AI will be a positive force for the network. They claim that the technology could help to become online faster, to carry out our electricity supply system more efficiently and to provide and prevent errors that cause power failures. How much earnings is there about this argument? . We bothered Google, Openai and Microsoft, but every company refused to deliver its number for our article. But then this summer after we published, a strange thing began to happen. They finally started publishing the numbers we called. Is our job complete with this newly discovered transparency? Did we finally play our white whale Harpoon? I turned to some of our old and new sources to find out. Read the whole story. With Technology Review says: Google Deepmind has a new way to look into the "mind" of a AI. We don't know exactly how AI works or why it works so well. This is a problem: it could make us use a AI system in a highly sensitive area such as medicine without understanding its critical mistakes. A team at Google Deepmind, which examines some name mechanistic interpretability, worked on new ways to look under the bonnet. This is our latest story, which is told in a podcast with -technology evaluation, which we publish every week in Spotify and Apple podcasts. Simply navigate to Technology Review that was told on both platform and follow us to get all of our new content while you are published. The must-reads that I combed on the Internet to find them from fun/most important/fascinating/fascinating stories about technology today. 1 Meta suppressed research on the damage with which young users are confronted in VR. Two former employees informed a Senate committee that the company did it to avoid a regulatory examination. (Wp $) 2 The Maga movement is full of AI skeptics, but the white house runs regulatory obstacles and tries to accelerate the acceptance of the AI. (Ft $) 3 Pfizer says that the new covid vaccine increases the immune responses four times if you can get one. (ARS Technica) + Americans who cannot access a booster are increasingly afraid. (The Guardian) + Vaccination instructions are incredibly confusing today. (VOX) + why limited access to Covid vaccines is not only bad. (With Technology Review) 4 The EU will examine the prohibition of social media for U16-year-olds after governments across Europe will urge mandatory age restrictions. (404 media) + people may be more of the opinion that disinformation from AI is created. (With Technology Review) 6 A "AI supporter" coder who won in a man against machine hackathon, but AI tools seem to slow down some experienced human developers. (WIRED $) + The second AI coding is here. (Nyt $) + The insolvency lawyer is fed up with being confused for him. (The Guardian) 8 new AirPods from Apple can translate languages ​​in real time using a robot voice in their ears. (ARS Technica) + A new AI translation system for headphones clone several voices at the same time. (With Technology Review) 9 AI threatens the diverse music scenes of Latin America, flooding fake songs, flooding streaming platforms and depriving artists of income. (Rest of the world) + how Pandora fiddled his streaming lead. (Fast Company $) + how to freed the Spotify algorithm. (With Technology Review) 10 Christie's auction house is awarded his digital art department, but don't worry - you will still sell NFTs. (Cointelegraph) + I tried to buy an olive garden. Everything I got was heartburn. (With Technology Review) Quote of the day "If you do not put the basics into account to bring these stars, you will finally burn out a few of them and annoy them, and a few of them will stop and you will waste millions of dollars." - Laszlo Bock, a consultant of the technology industry and former head People Operations on Google, points out where the Meta department at Wall Street Journal is wrong. Another thing that bet $ 100 billion on the fact that a post-industrial US city can reinvent itself as a high-tech hub in late April 2023. A small drill is located on the edge of the scrubbed, overgrown fields of Syracuse, New York, and takes soil test. It is the first sign of the construction of the largest semiconductor production facility in the USA. The chips and science act was widely viewed by industry leaders and politicians as a way to secure the supply chains and to make the United States competitive again in the production of semiconductor chips. Now Syracus will become an economic test, whether in the coming decades the aggressive government policy - and the massive corporate investments that it spurs - improve the country's manufacturing competence and revive neglected parts of the country. Read the whole story. - David Rotman We can still have nice things to get comfort, fun and distraction to lighten your day. (Have any ideas? Write me a line or SKEE on me.) + This 1981 Sony Trinitron TV is the last word in luxury. + It's not just you - how we get older, we really become less adventurous musically. + It seems that our human ancestors have hibernation - but it wasn't very good in it. + Has the renowned painter Vermeer duplicated his own painting? You are the judge.