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Could the world's mightiest computers be too complicated to use?

10 October 2018

China, Japan and the US are racing to build the first exascale computer – but devising programmes clever enough to run on them is a different story

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AI's dirty secret: Energy-guzzling machines may fuel global warming

10 October 2018

Advances in artificial intelligence could lead to massive growth in energy use as smart machines push into every corner of our lives

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