Yes. When this came first up, someone on /r/machinelearning scoffed that using NNs to control fans/coolers/power systems to optimize was trivial and obvious and

Yes. When this came first up, someone on /r/machinelearning scoffed that using NNs to control fans/coolers/power systems to optimize was trivial and obvious and had been done for decades. When I challenged him for a ref, he produced a PDF which listed dozens of industrial applications for various nonlinear NN algorithms... none of which were actually autonomously controlling anything and most were predictive.