Sam Altman says the energy needed for an average ChatGPT query can power a lightbulb for a few minutes

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Let’s hope AI will accelerate the development of alternative energy sources, such as fusion.

Nuclear (fusion) energy developments

Nuclear fusion seems like always an X amount of years away, will we ever achieve it? In this thread we will keep an eye on the developments including more traditional nuclear energy developmens. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma “ignites”, the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the f…