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>there are still rumors in other words. computers sitting in a big data center somewhere. artificial intelligence is growing. >and you have millions and millions of users who are sending those queries. do get questions answered. that also uses a lot of electricity. and so is the cost to keep it powered >up. >>so who gets stuck with the bill? >ultimately, they have to pay for themselves.
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>liz>just about every day we hear about a new development. with a i. and with the development comes to man. for more power. so the question is, can we keep up? we're talking with the uc berkeley professor to help us break it all down. we'll have that conversation in just a few moments, but 1st a look at your news headlines. to voters and their dogs were rescued after their boat caught fire on the bay. this afternoon. this was off the shore of redwood city, the coast guard says everyone on board managed to get off once it caught fire, and they were rescued by another vessel. in burlingame, macau. caltrain hit a semi truck that was on the tracks about 60. passengers were on board that train. luckily, no injuries were reported. and appeals court just cleared the way for san francisco, to sweep homeless encampments. the ruling brings the city in line with the u. s. supreme court's recent decision on an oregon case, which found that regulating camping on public property was not cruel and unusual. punishment. it's
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not clear exactly how in force mint will go forward in san francisco. a brush fire burned at least 10 acres near lake devil in livermore. this is time lapse video of the smoke from an alert wildfire camera. the fire broke out just after 11:00, cal fire sent an air tankers to help get a handle on it. firefighters in san francisco, say an electric scooter sparked this fire in an apartment building on leavenworth street flames and smoke shot out from the 4th floor. investigators say the scooter was charging when the fire broke out. one person was injured. in contrast, contra costa county, a water main break damaged at least 5 homes near san pablo. it happened in the community of terror hills. thousands of gallons of water flowed through the neighborhood last night. no word yet on what caused the water main break. today at oracle park giants fans will have a chance to say goodbye to willie mays and to celebrate his life. the public memorial is set to begin in just the next hour. the gates just open fans can make a donation to the state. hey,
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foundation. maze died peacefully last month at the age of 93. well, it is a 1st alert weather day. another 1 are extreme heat continuing in parts of the bay area. and there's plenty more coming, chief general paul hagen is here in paul. it's been a whole week of this really intense >paul>weather. the good news is that the heat relaxed a little bit today and we're going to see that relaxation of the heat continuing tomorrow is the marine layer has re established itself. but then we're back into 1st alert mode wednesday thursday and friday as the hot weather is going to return for inland parts of the bay area, so that enjoy this brief respite from the hottest temperatures closer to normal, even though we're mostly still on the positive side of average, but the return of the marine layer and the return to the fog there in is visible as we look out towards sutra tower from the mark hopkins hotel, the weight of the atmosphere on top of us, though, is still evident by the fact that such a shallow marine layer really the weight of the air over us just squishing that marine layer towards ground level, but the temperature downtown is only 66 degrees. that's fantastic. low 70s right now for oakland, we
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still have some 90s inland. but even the hottest spots are staying short of 100 degrees this afternoon. which is nice after a very hot 4 day, fourth of july weekend, we head through the rest of tonight that fog is going to make a push across the bay and into the inland valleys, even the shallow nature of the fog is going to allow it to make its way into those inland valleys to begin the day on tuesday, but it won't take long to dissipate. and our temperatures will warm up to pretty close to what's normal for this time of year after we start off near average as well. 1 day of normal temperatures enjoy it while it's here, temperatures beginning tomorrow, mostly in the 50s, some of the warmest spots around 60 degrees or mid 60s to the east of mount diablo, and then how's tomorrow either near or slightly above normal, but within 2 to 4 degrees of what's typical for the middle of july? we can definitely handle that. after the heart stretch of whether we had last week, temperatures are going to top out in the low 60s along the coast low to mid 80s down the peninsula. with mid to upper 80s for most locations in the senate, clara valley low 90s around morgan hill more 90s on the map as you look far inland in the east bay, but a lot of 80s through the tri
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valley, which is average for the middle of july. temperatures around the bay in the 60s in san francisco low 70s for oakland with a mix of a few upper 70s and a lot of low 80s for the north bay temperatures a little farther into the 80s, if not the 90s and especially our neighbors to the north. and inland medicine, oh county and lake county. getting up to or above 100 degrees, and then the heat returns. beginning on wednesday. are excessive heat warning has been transitioned to a heat advisory because it doesn't look like this round of hot weather is going to be quite as extreme for most of the bay area. but it's still a heat advisory is in effect for most of the region wednesday thursday and friday, which means that folks who are especially sensitive to any heat related issues health complications may have some problems in that regard as the heat builds the heat risk is going to go from low category tomorrow for most of the bay area to the moderate to high category on wednesday, and it's really just going to hover there on thursday. it starts to back down a little bit on friday. let's take a look at the 7 day forecast and we'll start inland temperatures. temperatures are going to reach up to or above 100 degrees for wednesday and thursday and then retreating to the upper 90s. if
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you call that a retreat back to near normal temperatures over the weekend, the 2nd weekend of july is actually looking pretty nice. it'll be warmed even hot inland, but normally warm to hot for this time of year temperatures around the bay should reach up into the 80s on thursday for our warmest day and then backing down to what's typical for mid july temperatures along the coast while you're not going to go up as much because we don't have that offshore wind to drive all the warm out of the coast. you should at least climb up close to 70 degrees for our warmest day on thursday, and then it's back down into the lower half of the 60s with the back and forth fog. definitely reasserting. itself as we hit the end of the work week and head into the weekend, >liz>liz paul. thank you. you can stay up to date on the next warmup, heading our way on kpix dot and streaming on the free cbs news app. and we all know our power grid is already strained. in large part due to the heat. now a i is in the mix, too. and as jane john ramos reports tech experts are getting more concerned about our grid, just being able to keep up >yeah.
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>>when most people surf the internet, they don't give much thought. to what's actually happening. but dr jonathan kumi does. he's been researching. electricity use in computing since the 1990s. >there are servers in other words, computers sitting in a big data center somewhere. and you're sending a message to them. and you're saying do this task for me? and when you send them that message, and it performs a task, it uses electricity. now with the arrival of artificial intelligence, those huge data centers are getting bigger and so are their power bills. a goldman sachs analysis predicts a 106 per increase in data center electricity >demand when you have giant computer systems, whose job it is to create the ai models and then you have millions and millions of users who are sending those queries. to get questions answered that also uses a lot of electricity. the problem is it takes
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about 10 times as much energy. to answer a chat gpt query than to ask the same thing in a normal google search, so there are a lot of dire predictions about what searching for cat videos using a i will do to the nation's power supply. but comey isn't worried, right now. it may be wide open. but he says those paying for the expensive servers will likely end up focusing a. i on applications that will make them money. >ultimately, they have to pay for themselves. can tell you that chad gdp is great for entertaining 15 year olds are kids love it, but i don't know if that's a sustainable business model. right. it's probably they're probably not high margin customers, so comey says new technologies are always a little rough around the edges. but it doesn't take long for them to become more efficient. >that's to me is the most important thing for people. to understand is that electricity use could go up. uh, but it could also level off as it has in the past when we get smarter
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about how we deliver, those computing services. and getting smarter is what it's supposed to be all about. >liz>it turns out a i can actually solve some of its own problems. john tells us google used a machine to reduce the to learn how to reduce cooling costs at 1 of its data centers by 30 to 40%. but google also says its emissions grew 13. in 2023. and 48%. since 2019. citing the massive amounts of electricity needed for a i well, still ahead, we'll talk with a uc berkeley professor about the demands that come with a i innovation. and also some benefits, including in the medical field.
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>liz>the santa clara county health department is respond. to amy. measles. exposure health officials say they have been notified of a measles case from a person who was visiting the country who traveled out of mineta. international airport on july 2nd. we are expecting to learn more in a news conference in just the next half hour, we'll keep you posted on this. all right. we're talking about a i this half hour and while there are concerns that it's moving too fast, the medical field is touting some advancements. a study from ucsf found a i is as good as the position at prioritizing. which patients need to be seen 1st. researchers say using ai during triage can help free up critical time for a doctor to
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treat patients. it looks at their clinical notes to determine symptoms and severity. a new artificial intelligence. could also help in cancer. therapy researchers in australia developed a new tool that predicts a patient's messenger are and a profile and determines. what treatment could be most. effective. it was trained on more than 55. patients across 60. cancer types, including breast lung and pancreatic cancers. and a i accelerating the discovery of new antibiotics. researchers at the university of pennsylvania used in a i program, to analyze 10s of thousands of bacteria. and produce dozens of promising antibiotic. compounds. the authors say. what once took years will now just take a few hours. and will be especially helpful and fighting drug resistant. infections. joining me now is uc berkeley business professor dr olaf growth thank you so much for joining >tfxw mic>us. always fun to >liz>be with you. >tfxw mic>always >>always so fascinating to talk to you. you've been studying a
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i you teach it in your classrooms. this is such an exciting time for the advancement part of intelligence. but you know, it has impact on lots of different industries. some in a good way. some in the not so good way. we just talked about the advancements. in medicine, which are very promising, but i'm curious. you know what the kind of the long game with that? could a. i potentially make health care less expensive, is it going to change the way students? learn and medical school? >tfxw mic>what do you think? look, i think in medicine a i can't come early enough, right? we just heard the ability of a i to aggregate. tons of different streams. of data. much better, much quicker than a human brain can that is really high value. ah, but but the cost efficiency there. that's a real long game along long game because for every doctor whose life you're making more efficient you are actually hiring data scientists. you hire a. i scientists. and and you're going to have to get into expensive contracts with
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companies whether consulting or or large tech companies that will put these models in place for you and to amortize that and bring it down to cost reductions will take a number >liz>of years. it's interesting to see where that's going to grow, but also so earlier we talked about the ai technology and the demands it's made on the power grid. and, you know nowadays a company it's not just a perk to go green or to be environmentally friendly. it's a requirement. so how do they balance you know, advancing a i technology and doing everything they can to develop the latest and greatest, but also not making a huge impact on the environment. >tfxw mic>well, yeah, first of all, we're looking at a at an incredible impact of ai and tvs, which also in part a i driven in and in power consumption. we're looking at an increase of about 2 to killer to what per hour to peddle watts and that's about 1 trillion trillion kilowatt each. massive amount that we have to actually feel. so that's about 200 gigawatt delivery of supply. every year.
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that's 200 nuclear power plants. and always the country. so that's that's amazing what balancing that by using a i for energy efficiency scheduling. energy supply. and off. peak times. scheduling. different computing tasks at different times. of the day. and balancing the grid because there will be a lot of pressure on the grid once all of that comes into force >liz>swing. we got to talk about government regulations. it's interesting to see the us strategy on this because, you know, you look at the eu. they have their own set of laws. you look at china they have their set of laws that are going to work. it's a different perspective than maybe the us is, but do you see the us eventually going towards a more centralized, you know, bill of rights, much like the bottom ministrations suggesting is that we have a certain certain set of laws that all the companies follow. and that's what you follow or do you think that it's going to continue to kind of piecemeal? these laws together? >tfxw mic>it will take a little while longer because we
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traditionally have the culture of letting 1000 flowers bloom that's our innovation, strength we're competing against china. we need california and the tech companies to continue to be the engines of economic growth in america. so people are not really eager to regulate. large tech on a i how it will happen only because these tech companies whether they're domestic or international. can't really scale solutions throughout the united states if we have 2030 different state laws that govern a i so eventually we'll get there. i think we're currently seeing a bit of an up uplift their congress has introduced bipartisan bill. the american privacy rights act, a pr a that with a little bit of luck, we'll speak to the 81% of americans who are not happy with how large tech is actually taking their data and using ai, to objectify them as it were, which is the flip side of all the valuable services we get from the tech companies. >liz>question. hot topic right >tfxw mic>now >>are exactly growth. thank you. we're going to see the next >tfxw mic>block >>sounds good. ahead. it sounded like scarlett
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johansson, but, she says that's just not me. how a i could be copying. celebrities. >yeah.
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yeah. i'm what? i'm wondering which ones is going to be a 1st in away. way, i mean, is it going to be like this? industry or like out just in the normal world, people are going to start losing jobs like not in the movie industry at all right? many people are going to lose their jobs just to an ai that can, you know, do so much. call waiting and supporting. like this, like the passing of legislation to protect everybody's an individual rates. >liz>yeah. actress scarlett johansson is just 1 of the latest celebrity is to blast open ai. she says her voice was copied without her consent. for
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the company's personal assistant. program. the ceo of open, ai says out of respect for miss johansson, they have paused using the voice in their products. >this is open a eyes business model. they troll the entire internet for every image. back. it up and make many. many, many millions of dollars off of this. who isn't getting paid the artist. >liz>joining me once again, as uc berkeley business professor, dr olaf growth thanks so much for sticking with us for 1 more >tfxw mic>block, >>of course. a i huge impact on the entertainment business movie executives really like it because it could potentially save them a lot of money, but the people who are actually making the movie like the actors, the writers the directors. this is a huge >tfxw mic>problem. it yeah, it's an absolute problem. replicating. somebody's likeness as it were without getting their permission 1st. much less paying them is a no go. you can't really do that. it's a violation of fairness and ethics. i think professional ethics and so that
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will be eventually. regulated and we are starting to see the development of technology tools that will help with that. and then there is the whole other issue that the actors and the screenwriters guild addressed successfully. in my estimate. and i think for all of our benefit because they were the 1st to say, look, this is my creative work and of a i now looks at that replicates that and we can replicate me. i need to be cut into that proposition with my for my creativity and you have to work with me on this and luckily um, the studios. agreed and there was agreement reached that if a i is at play it has to partner with a screenwriter and the screenwriter will get credit and we'll get paid. intellectual property law helped >liz>there >>because you can't really assign intellectual property to and i without a legal persona behind >liz>it. you know the big concern, also with a i is how it's going to impact the job industry, is it going to cause people to lose their jobs? is it going to create jobs at some people aren't? prepared to do?
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how do you think it's going to impact the job >tfxw mic>industry. it's going to change how jobs are composed. how different tasks are managed. it's going to change the life of the university professor and the tv anchor. there are just certain things that in a i can do better. even when it comes to pretending to be us. anne. depending on what tasks that's for. we may well like that, but it's all in the design. it's going to be a thoughtful job design. what does a i do do better and do with our agreement versus what do we do? and how do we make sure that we got that split right? so i would encourage anybody amongst your viewers who was taking a new job? think about how that job will be evolving over the next 5 years engage with with the management with hr. to think about. what's that new trade off between a i and the >liz>human and i'm curious that as an employee do you have to just know that whatever job you're taking chances are you're going to have to keep retraining. taking new classes and adapting with changing technology, no matter what. >tfxw mic>you do absolutely. we're going through that right
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now with an ai task force at berkeley haas, where all the professors in the staff now have to think about. had we collaborate with a i. what's legitimate? what's out of bounds? how do you advise students? how do you work with professors to make sure the content is respect in their craft disrespected, but changes coming for all of us? there is no way >liz>around it. right? dr. olive grove. thank you so much for being here. >tfxw mic>fast >>measuring conversation. and we'll be right. right back.
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