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Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/59925291

The system can function in air with 20% humidity or less. But these 1,000 liter a day machines are not small, at around shipping container size.

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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 44 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Atoco harnesses the power of AI to bridge the gap between scientific discovery and real-world implementation, transforming innovative research into scalable solutions. By integrating machine learning and AI with reticular chemistry, we dramatically reduce the time needed to develop, optimize and scale our novel nano-engineered reticular materials for carbon capture and atmospheric water harvesting.

Bruh.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

You're conflating LLMs with Machine Learning and the broader industry of AI which have been solving real problems really well for a good long time.

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is likely not the Generative AI, LLM-slop type of AI you're thinking of.

I hate generative AI. But other forms of AI and machine learning have been used for much longer and haven't facilitated the building of ecologically harmful datacenters.

For example, AlphaFold, which is an AI program that can predict how proteins fold and is an incredibly useful tool.

I expect that the use of AI here would be similar: something trained for a specific purpose, not just generic generative AI tech like ChatGPT

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

I sure hope so, the website just reads like generic corporate slop

[–] ghost@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reading that felt like my brain was trying to chew glue

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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[–] dil@piefed.zip 8 points 1 day ago

I was researching ai before llms for a gen ed class, this isn't the sensationalized type of ai, ai in medicine and sht is pretty cool. Hospitality ai is getting too good too fast tho. Robot hotels and restaurants would not be suprising.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/new-ai-tool-pinpoints-genes-drug-combos-restore-health-diseased-cells

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00240-5