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This has to be managed but there is always a missing part to this dicusssion - the potential net positive. If the obligations or reven rules are right, AI can be applied to generate exponential carbon savings across industry, serices and user activities.

That’s what I need to use on Edge.

I guess the question to ask is - how useable and useful AI? Reports say that around 70-80% of AI projects fail https://www.pmi.org/blog/why-most-ai-projects-fail are we merely creating cartoons of perfect people in some fantasy island? Be nice to see threat prediction models https://sentry.northeastern.edu/research/threat-prediction/ esp outbreaks https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/20/health/ebola-by-the-numbers through to auditing https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-ai-machine-learning-algorithms-continuous-rameez-ali/ to catch the white collar criminals early and perhaps https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/path-fully-autonomous-economies-andre-drpde/ to avoid rogue politicians from stealing the pot creating a wake of debt. To catch ponzi and pyramid schemes too so much money dumped into the economy now https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/state-our-union-more-indebted-ever https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2025/number/2/article/big-tech-and-the-us-digital-military-industrial-complex.html https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-tech-leaders-unite-american-ai-dominance/ Will citizens put up with the mess? https://www.techpolicy.press/the-public-is-getting-fed-up-with-data-centers-politicians-need-to-take-notice/

An odd comment: “Meanwhile, data centers are expected to continue trending toward using dirtier, more carbon-intensive forms of energy (like gas) to fill immediate needs, leaving clouds of emissions in their wake. “ Gas, as in natural gas? If so, that energy source is the least carbon-intensive form of energy which leads to far less emissions of any of the hydrocarbon-based energy forms. Nuclear has no carbon footprint per se during generation, but has its own type of extremely toxic form of emission. (Wind and solar are nowhere near being able to meet energy needs and again have their own forms of problematic “emissions.”) Fusion has no carbon footprint during generation, and if/when superconductor technology becomes industrialized then I expect that to solve many energy need problems by reducing energy transmission and use losses. I don’t see the use of gas powered electricity generation as needing to lead the list of downside energy usage possibilities.

I don't have a large sample to draw on, but I'd say the dissertations I've seen this year have been a pretty poor bunch.

Good AMD is back

Thanks so much for not keeping this to yourself Abhishek Veeramalla. Thanks to Oracle for making it an open resource.

This is massive, I will really love to explore more deeper

Future brains of ultra agile robotics systems

Thank you very much for putting this out here

my department introduced oral thesis examinations. i do not think that solves the issue (entirely), but let's see how it will unfold. we are given only 15 minutes for examination (total, not per examiner). in macedonia, where I come from, the theses were always orally defended, but what helped not to block the examiners' work for a month, was that the students are given an entire year (the year after their studies) to hand in their thesis. once they hand in, the oral examination is scheduled, so it happened that there is only one or two scheduled examinations per month, since not everyone was handing in the theses at the same time. my bachelor thesis examination was an hour, the masters-two hours. before handing in, your supervisor needs to approve your submission.

Ana Pop Stefanija yes that was the Italian system when I graduated eons ago. I am very curious to know how the 15 minutes orals go. In the UK there is a very strong stigma against orals due to EDI concerns.

Everything will move this direction. Local models running for regulated industries and those seeking privacy for IP security. It is the same reason Punky Tiger Labs created the PCIe card to turn any desktop PC into an AI machine. https://nymphtech.com

Paolo serious games and simulations could finally (rightly) be making their way up the food chain!

NPU!

At the Uni Potsdam where I studied in Germany, 20 min of defense + 30 min of questions are mandatory (Masters). I just found out that every university here has their own way, and that it isn’t the standard, but it seems reasonable. Although 15-20 minutes seem so short to me to find out if someone has done the work, it could be that experience and domain knowledge compound and then it suffices :)

I agree 15 minutes is very short, so it will catch only the most blatant usage and the most unprepared students only. The difficult hallucinations to spot are difficult to spot in any form. If a student is using an obscure reference I have not read, and the hallucination is a missinterpretation or concept stretching of such obscure reference, I need time to study it and understand it to be able to catch the mistake. So a restriction on the domain of methods and references might be one key ingredient to avoid having to do quite a bit of studying of often very useless obscure papers before grading each assessment.

What feels impossible today often becomes normal surprisingly fast in technology. The pace of AI hardware advancement right now is honestly incredible.

I use AI strictly to bounce ideas off of. It's not a friend, it's a tool that collects data as you share, and reports it to its creator. At least that's my thoughts

What does it mean "stats output we doubt are real"? I mean either is real or it is fabricated. But AI is by now pretty good at econometrics, certainly way better than writing.