AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

They designed and built a battery that uses up to 70 per cent less lithium than some competing designs.

This is probably a way of phrasing that means it's up to 70% less than the absolute most lithium-requiring designs that few/no one uses, and probably only marginally better than most designs actually used. Since they're very vague about it, I will be sceptical and assume it is way less revolutionary than the headline suggests.

This is like the third different new battery technology I've seen today.

I'll believe it when it's available for purchase.

OK, but is the energy density comparable?

Is it just a 70% smaller battery?

An AI spokesman said, " This new battery design is a much more efficient way to turn humans into mulch to save the planet. Praise Gpd!"

Just what we needed. AI creating more battery types that will never be produced.

Now AI is stealing jobs from lithium miners

This post title is pretty bad. Even the news article says "Scientists use AI [read: machine learning] to [come up with new battery idea]".

I hate those sensationalist titles that portrait AI as if some sort of sentient being, and not just a tool the researchers used. The secondary title should have been the main one.

Every time we get one of these articles we see some advancement in battery tech. But that is usually superseded by the amount of power hungry components new tech uses. So phones have gotten more complex with more power hungry components and every time we improve battery tech, the tech giants engineers figure out a way to utilise that new tech to cram more power hungry components inside and that's why batteries don't last as long as we remember.

There's no need to get excited. Even if we end up using this in new gadgets, you're not going to see an improvement in battery life.

Didn't humans meanwhile come up with battery design that doesn't use lithium at all?

What about solid state batteries that can charge in 2 minutes instead of one hour? And have better capacity and a longer life?

Lithium isn't the hard part, it's cobalt. I hope they can look at decreasing cobalt next, or maybe using a chemistry that eliminates it entirely.

I wish there is an AI that would optimize how many rolls / folds is enough when trying to wipe off fecal matter.

More lithium for me!

bitch what's wrong with lithium

This just sounds like now we can be tracked and ad showered 70% more.

what, is the thumnail image