[Lekooks] Oppenheimer

[Ray Grosch]

DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion
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Wired
https://www.wired.com › Science › DeepMind
<https://www.wired.com/story/deepmind-ai-nuclear-fusion/>
Feb 16, 2022 — The Google-backed AI firm taught a reinforcement learning
algorithm to control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion
reactor.

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On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 10:31 AM Fran B. via Lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org>
wrote:

> I haven't seen the movie but will soon. Gerry, do you think AI will be the
> new Doomsday Machine? Nuclear fission and AI can be used for good and evil.
> Fran
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> *From:* Lekooks <lekooks-bounces at lekook.org> on behalf of Gerald Flakas
> via Lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 29, 2023 7:39:25 AM
> *To:* Stephanie Tsoris via Lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org>; James Kishline <
> jlkishline at yahoo.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Lekooks] Oppenheimer
>
> The movie was very interesting to me because I remember the "modern
> physics" courses I took at the UW in the '60s, and remember the pantheon of
> pioneering physicists from the 20th century such as Heisenberg, Bohr,
> Fermi, Teller, and of course Einstein, who played important roles in the
> movie. Those were heady times for scientists like Oppenheimer making new
> discoveries and inventions. And the '30s were turbulent times with the rise
> of fascism and communism, and many intellectuals sided with the communists
> without realizing the horrors of Stalin. The movie's portrayal of the
> Trinity bomb blast was a wakeup to the horror of what they created; like
> Frankenstein, they created a monster with the power to destroy its creator
> and all the rest of us.
> Then I remember the McCarthy-era congessional hearings about Oppenheimer,
> with him being demonized for his associations with communists before the
> War. My Grandma was a McCarthy supporter and thought Oppenheimer was a "Jew
> Commie" - she was a borderline Nazi, and would be horrified to learn how
> liberal her grandson has become!
> All in all I think this is a powerful movie that should scare the hell out
> of us.
> Gerry
>
>
> On Friday, July 28, 2023 at 07:56:30 PM CDT, James Kishline via Lekooks <
> lekooks at lekook.org> wrote:
>
>
> Definitely a film to talk about after you see it and maybe see it again
> because there is so much packed into it. There are also some documentaries
> that talk about this event and the background of Oppenheimer and how is
> story unfolded. Compassion as we don’t always understand the full effects
> of our choices till afterward.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Jul 27, 2023, at 4:24 PM, Stephanie Tsoris via Lekooks <
> lekooks at lekook.org> wrote:
> >
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