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A ChatGPT query uses about ten times as much electricity as a Google search.

The ten-to-one comparison rests on a 2023 estimate of about 3 Wh per ChatGPT request. A 2025 analysis puts a typical GPT-4o request near 0.3 Wh, OpenAI's chief executive gives 0.34 Wh, and Google measures 0.24 Wh for a median Gemini text prompt. Those figures are close to the long-quoted number for a search. Estimates depend on model, response length and what is counted.

2 support · 3 dispute

Updated 6 Oct 2026

Works generated entirely by AI cannot be copyrighted in the United States.

The US Copyright Office, a federal district court and the DC Circuit have each held that copyright requires a human author, and registration was refused for a work presented as generated autonomously by a machine. A human's selection, arrangement or modification of AI material can still be protected, as in a 2023 decision on a comic with AI-generated images. UK law treats computer-generated works differently.

3 support · 2 context

Updated 6 Oct 2026

AlphaFold has solved the protein-folding problem.

AlphaFold predicts many protein structures accurately, but its predictions still need experimental checking, and for proteins that can adopt two folds it usually predicts only one. The Nobel citation credits structure prediction, and the successor model is still extending to complexes. Predicting a structure is not the same as explaining how proteins fold, move and interact.

2 context

Updated 6 Oct 2026

AI-supported mammography screening detects more breast cancers than standard double reading by radiologists.

A Swedish randomised trial, a large German implementation study and a separate Swedish prospective study each found more cancers detected when radiologists read with AI support than under standard double reading. Follow-up of the Swedish trial found higher sensitivity with a non-inferior interval-cancer rate. Higher detection is not evidence of lower mortality.

2 support

Updated 6 Oct 2026

AI chatbots can diagnose medical cases as accurately as doctors.

GPT-4 scored strongly against physicians on written diagnostic cases, and Google's AMIE matched or exceeded clinicians in simulated consultations. A pooled analysis of 83 studies found no significant difference from non-specialist physicians, though AI performed below experts. The evidence comes from test cases and simulated patients, not routine care of real patients.

2 support

Updated 6 Oct 2026

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