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nuclear power produces long-lived radioactive waste, which needs to be stored securely. Nuclear fuels, such as the element uranium (which needs to be mined), are finite, so the technology is not considered renewable. Renewable sources of energy, such as solar and wind power suffer from “intermittency”, meaning they do not consistently produce energy at all hours of the day.

fusion technologies have yet to produce sustained net energy output (more energy than is put in to run the reactor), let alone produce energy at the scale required to meet the growing demands of AI. Fusion will require many more technological developments before it can fulfil its promise of delivering power to the grid.

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[-] gdog05@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Maybe AI can help us break the fusion hurdles. Oh. It's still telling people to eat rocks, just used to create waifu porn and as a mass spy application? Nothing else, really? Well shit.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Probably. Proxima fusion is using simulation-driven engineering to pave their way through the design space, no matter how you approach it it's gotta involve dimension reduction in some way and that's ML. They speak of AI but well it's a press piece.

LLMs or diffusion models? Nah, don't think so. This is actual engineers throwing statistics at a particular problem to identify what prototypes they should build, not techbros throwing shit at the wall.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

It's even bad at porn. Very limited means of describing the process, forgetting that there are no bed sheets in a park, same repeating metaphors. Boring.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

I know you're being reflexively downvoted by who hate everything AI, but this is the sort of thing AI should be most useful for, which is finding patterns within large problem spaces with many variables.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

They're mocking AI, why would they be being downvoted by people who reflexively hate anything AI?

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Nothing else? Please do not speak for other people if you can not grasp what others do with this tool.

[-] gdog05@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Sorry, I didn't mean to leave out the bestiality porn creation as well. That was unintentional on my part.

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