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This is a very laymen, simplistic comment, but it sounds like the engineering complexities for industrialization need a little help from AI. I know nothing abo
by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
This is a very laymen, simplistic comment, but it sounds like the engineering complexities for industrialization need a little help from AI.
I know nothing about AI/machine learning, but if these processes could be unleashed to simplify the engineering processes then maybe cold fusion could be cost effective.
Humans are just very slow and the complexity is almost overwhelming.
- audunw 10y agoThe stellerator would not have been possible to design without massive amounts of computer power for simulations. Not AI exactly, but it certainly seems like we need near-AI level computing power.
- pg_is_a_butt 10y agoso.... you want AI to design nuclear reactors.... very dangerous nuclear reactors that are regulated by men who spend their days calling people and asking for more money on top of their taxes. no one knows how or why the decisions were made in the design, so how are they supposed to know how or why to require maintenance? how does it even work at all? or are we letting AI run congress now too?
- noahdesu 10y agoThis is certainly the case, but not necessarily AI. Huge supercomputers are used to run physics simulations to assist with material design processes at national labs [0]. I cannot imagine that some of that work is related to dealing with material at the extremes where fusion would be pushing the state of the art. Genetic algorithms have been used for exploring large design spaces, as well [1]. It's all really cool stuff. [0]: https://lanl.gov/org/padste/adeps/materials-science-technology/ https://lanl.gov/org/padste/adeps/materials-science-technolo... [1]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=genetic+algorithm+design+antenna&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=genetic+algorithm...