One of the main drawbacks of current AI systems is the amount of energy required to fuel the vast amounts of computing power they need to operate. This has led to the seemingly absurd situation of tech giants such as Microsoft and Google moving to secure the outputs of whole nuclear power stations to support their activities. The human brain, by comparison, is vastly more energy efficient in its operation, though AI clearly outstrips it in the potential scale of its activities.
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Prestigious research grant awarded to FORTH researcher
Anastasios Pavlopoulos, Principal Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (IMBB-FORTH) has been awarded a Research Grant from the 2023 Human Frontiers Science Program. Mr Pavlopoulos is the Principal Investigator (PI) of an international team with co-PIs Dr. Liangqi (Frank) Xie at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in USA and Dr. Léo Guignard at the Aix-Marseille University in France. The team will receive $1.2 million in funding for three years to study the cellular and molecular basis of bilaterian symmetry.
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