5 Aug 2024, 16:33 UTC≈4,680 views9 reactionsread 8 August 2026 14:32
The first one involves being able to delay the process. It's known as Dorian Gray after the fictional character who didn't age while a hidden painting of him did. The second scenario is what we call the Wolverine or the fountain of youth. Taking old people and make them young. This is very, very hard. This will be the most complex things we can do.
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And the third scenario, and this is a very exciting scen…
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5 Aug 2024, 16:33 UTC≈6,820 views17 reactionsread 8 August 2026 19:37
do things that are meaningful to you and you do them with other people, that having casual contact with other people who share your interests will eventually be likely to lead to building new relationships. So how might being alone affect longevity? There's a lot of research now in this area. So the best hypotheses are that it has to do with stress and the regulation of stress.
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So if you think about it, …
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5 Aug 2024, 16:33 UTC≈3,450 views12 reactionsread 8 August 2026 00:00
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5 Aug 2024, 16:33 UTC≈2,900 views9 reactionsread 8 August 2026 05:02
And we want to build communities where people could live for 100 years, staying healthy, active, connected and live with a sense of security. So this is not the retirement community. So we are not working only for older people, for people of all ages. With so many people living for longer, there's an opportunity to plug employment gaps in a shrinking workforce. In Japan, people who start brand new jobs after re…
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5 Aug 2024, 16:33 UTC≈3,090 views9 reactionsread 8 August 2026 09:48
So in some individuals, as they get older, the actual size of the brain will get smaller. And that decrease in size will, or seems to occur specifically in areas of the brain that are important for cognitive function. So older adults may experience memory lapses or a decreased ability to multitask or even behavioral changes. They may become more anxious or feel depressed. But it's important to stress that not a…
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5 Aug 2024, 16:28 UTC≈3,710 views10 reactionsread 8 August 2026 File
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14 Jul 2024, 12:44 UTC≈3,330 views4 reactionsread 8 August 2026 And so the dynamic is quite interesting for poor countries that are energy-scarce that the power requirements of AI and digital infrastructure can be less of a threat and more of an opportunity to actually build out this infrastructure and start plugging these energy access gaps. And even better, bearing in mind what our first two witnesses have said about the environmental costs of AI.
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The energy that many Af…
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14 Jul 2024, 12:44 UTC≈4,010 views17 reactionsread 8 August 2026 21:26
and how we use them, at least in the short term. And maybe that's the lesson here. He uses power to log on to chat GPT and ask it for recipe suggestions. It takes even more power to use AI to produce funny pictures or folk songs in the style of Taylor Swift. And that's power that could be used for something else. Or even better, considering how much electricity we still produce from carbon-heavy fuels, not at a…
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14 Jul 2024, 12:44 UTC≈2,590 views7 reactionsread 8 August 2026 00:00
Welcome to the inquiry on the BBC World Service with me, David Baker. Each week, one question, four expert witnesses and an answer.
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Feel underneath your laptop after you've been using it for a while. Chances are it's warm. That's heat produced by the thousands of calculations that your laptop is doing to keep that spreadsheet up to date, display your emails, and yes, listen to this programme on the BBC W…
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14 Jul 2024, 12:44 UTC≈1,900 views4 reactionsread 8 August 2026 04:24
coming up and helping us finding breakthroughs for nuclear fusion or improving solar panels. Now if you look a lot further in the future where we have artificial super intelligence, the AI might come up with finding ways to extract energy from thin air. And that sounds very much like science fiction, but who knows? You know, if we have an intelligent being that is infinitely more intelligent than human species,…
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14 Jul 2024, 12:44 UTC≈1,810 views5 reactionsread 8 August 2026 08:56
How can we use alternative energy sources, renewable energy, such as solar, such as thermal energy. But in actual fact, we simply aren't increasing the amount of renewable sources into the grid to meet the increasing demands that are particularly coming from the technology sector. So what's filling that gap at the moment? It's really been a return to traditional non-renewable sources like coal and of course
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14 Jul 2024, 12:44 UTC≈2,560 views4 reactionsread 8 August 2026 It exists, but it won't cover the whole country, or it exists, but it won't always be providing the reliable power that people need. And just as people in Southeast Asia need more electricity to run air conditioning systems, the more the world uses AI...
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the more energy it needs? There's two reasons we're going to need more energy for AI. The first is that some of the bigger AI models are going to get bigger a…
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