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Machine learning is already contributing to figuring out how to get energy from a fusion reactor. https://spectrum.ieee.org/can-ai-make-a-better-fusion-reactor
by lern_too_spel 4y ago
Machine learning is already contributing to figuring out how to get energy from a fusion reactor. https://spectrum.ieee.org/can-ai-make-a-better-fusion-reactor https://spectrum.ieee.org/can-ai-make-a-better-fusion-reacto... and https://www.deepmind.com/blog/accelerating-fusion-science-through-learned-plasma-control https://www.deepmind.com/blog/accelerating-fusion-science-th...
- AlbertCory 4y agoYou're changing the question. OP said "they've crushed multiple problems that were viewed as being decades away in just a few years." "contributing to figuring out how" is not the same as "crushing the problem." It's helpful, of course.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoContainment is the hardest problem with fusion reactors, and ML directly addresses it. (Obviously, ML doesn't directly solve fusion.) Now it's likely that there will be a commercially viable fusion reactor in the 2030s, whereas it used to be the case that a proof of concept was perpetually 30 years away.