{"id":1456017,"date":"2024-02-07T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1456017"},"modified":"2024-02-07T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T03:55:00","slug":"nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-artificial-intelligence\/1456017\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Artificial Intelligence<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

A recent physics breakthrough that could serve as a proof-of-concept for the development of nuclear fusion reactors capable of producing near-unlimited energy has finally passed its official peer-review successfully.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On Dec. 5, 2022, a team of researchers at the United States National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California recorded data indicating that it had achieved a nuclear fusion reaction that created more energy than it took to produce. The reported results were the first of their kind.<\/p>\n

In physics, this is sometimes colloquially referred to as a \u201cfree lunch,\u201d meaning a nuclear fusion reactor could one day be scaled to the point where it is capable of producing near-unlimited energy.<\/p>\n

If the NIF team\u2019s reported results were correct, their breakthrough research could serve as a platform for the future technology that might help us eliminate our dependence on carbon energy and supercharge fields where energy scarcity presents as a roadblock, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing.<\/p>\n

But, as science communicator Carl Sagan\u00a0put it<\/a>, \u201cExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.\u201d News of the breakthrough was taken with both a measure of optimism and a grain of salt by the physics community. The general consensus, at the time, was that people should wait until peer review before shouting \u201ceureka!\u201d at the findings.<\/p>\n

Eureka time?<\/h2>\n

The peer review is in, and according to a report in the APA Physics journal, multiple teams have\u00a0confirmed<\/a>\u00a0and replicated the results.<\/p>\n

Recreating the experiment was no easy feat.<\/strong> To achieve the original fusion reaction, NIF scientists used a technique called inertial confinement fusion. This form of fusion involves bombarding heavy hydrogen atoms with nearly 200 lasers, causing them to superheat and, ultimately, fuse at pressures greater than those found within the sun.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

While this early work has only just been confirmed through peer review, the NIF device could serve as a platform by which practical fusion reactors can be built. It\u2019s currently too soon to predict when a viable fusion reactor might be achieved.<\/p>\n

Next-generation energy<\/h2>\n

Once realized, however, the free availability of so-called next-generation energy sources could supercharge the engineering and development of adjacent technologies such as AI and quantum computing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fields such as those, where energy bottlenecks at play are perceived to be the next great hurdle to scale, could see generational leaps in progress once those roadblocks are removed.<\/p>\n

As Cointelegraph recently reported, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there\u2019s no way to build the AI systems of the future\u00a0until there\u2019s a fusion energy breakthrough<\/a><\/strong>. It\u2019s possible that this work from the NIF team could be the first confirmed step toward that breakthrough technology.<\/p>\n

OpenAI might be in the best position to understand the energy requirements needed to train systems such as ChatGPT, but it bears mention that Altman is personally\u00a0invested<\/a>\u00a0in a private company working on fusion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 02\/07\/2024 – 17:55<\/span><\/p>\n

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