The Strange and New Light State

What About Our Future If I told you that scientists have just turned light into a kind of matter that behaves like a liquid and a solid at the same time, you’d probably ask what sci-fi show I was watching. But this isn’t fiction. It’s real. It’s cutting-edge physics. And it might just reshape how we think about the universe. Researchers at Italy’s National Research … Continue reading The Strange and New Light State

AI Wants to Eat the Grid: Will Humanity Feed It or Fry First?

The Quiet Emergency Behind the AI BoomEveryone is excited about AI breaking records, writing code, designing new medicines, and maybe even thinking like us. But there is one big problem growing behind all of this: electricity. For example, training GPT-3 used 1,287 megawatt-hours of energy—enough to power 100,000 homes. Every time someone asks ChatGPT a question, it uses about five times more electricity than a … Continue reading AI Wants to Eat the Grid: Will Humanity Feed It or Fry First?

Educating Is Difficult — But AI Just Made It Borderless

It’s official. The week is almost over, but something stayed with me, and I can’t log off before sharing it. A quote. A spark. A sentence from Paula Harraca that hit like a quiet truth we’ve always known, but rarely pause to acknowledge: “Teaching is easy because it has to do with knowing; educating is difficult because it has to do with being.” In that … Continue reading Educating Is Difficult — But AI Just Made It Borderless