Nuclear Fusion: The Last “Microfrontier”

Imagine the world with almost unlimited fuel and clean fuel. Imagine a society where you can use the same sun process. Skeptics may say that this is impossible. In fact, there is another energy source and there is a process to create it. Nuclear fusion is a process using the β 3 isotope, which allows the United States and the world to generate large amounts of energy as an alternative to petroleum. Whether nuclear fusion produces a lot of energy in the United States

Is AGI in the same situation as nuclear fusion? Does AGI researchers overestimate the ability to achieve intelligent "fusion"? The number of unknowns in AGI is larger than unknown number in fusion. However, AGI may not have the same stringent physical constraints to deal with. Instead, intelligence exists in the field of information processing, the world is virtual simulation. The major cause of negligible physical influence is Moore's Law. This law has grown exponentially for decades and has not stopped! (Quanta reports on a system that uses an atomic switch that simulates neuromorphic calculations.) In addition, the deep learning workload makes parallel changes embarrassing. Therefore, although the silicon clock frequency is less than 4 GHz in decades, you can build more powerful chips. In 2012, when the GPU had sufficient computing power, deep learning stands out from an almost forgotten approach called artificial neural network.

Hybrid fusion - nuclear fission (hybrid nuclear power) is a proposed means to generate electricity using a combination of fusion and fission processes. This concept dating back to the 1950s and briefly promoted by Hans Bethe in the 1970s was hardly sought before the 2009 interest rate recovery due to delays in achieving pure integration. The PACER project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the mid-1970s explored the possibility of a nuclear fusion power generation system including the explosion of a small hydrogen bomb (melting bomb) in the underground cave. As an energy source, this system is the only fusion power system that can demonstrate the use of existing technology. However, it also requires massive continuous supply of nuclear bombs, which makes the economics of such systems quite dubious.