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Google's AI stoplight program is now calming traffic in a dozen cities worldwide
- otteromkram 3y agoAnyone else actually remember when you could time lights and hit a couple of consecutive greens? Now, instead of making people better, more-attentive drivers through practice and education every few years, we get to deal with another round of "smart" lights. My bet is that most cities won't adopt them since the powers that be use traffic as a chance to advertise their town's offerings. Why speed that up?
- haltist 3y agoSame ideas have been applied in data centers to minimize energy use for dissipating excess heat from server racks. In theory, AI should be able to optimize any kind of "plant" and its processes to minimize some metric like energy. Would be interesting if it was applied to the electricity grid to minimize fossil fuel use from peaker power plants.