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AI has literally nothing to do with this. Why do they feel the need to sprinkle the phrase everywhere? AI inverter/compressor? Come on, have some sense of shame
by BearOso 1y ago
AI has literally nothing to do with this. Why do they feel the need to sprinkle the phrase everywhere? AI inverter/compressor? Come on, have some sense of shame, please.
- savrajsingh 1y agoBecause it works wonders on non-technical people
- rcxdude 1y agoIt's the name of the game, alas. In the area I work in, I've seen many companies get many multiples of the investment we've gotten because it's "quantum", even though they're trying to do the same thing we're doing and doing less well at it.
- throwawayoldie 1y agoI assume that if you have "quantum AI", VCs break into your house and force bags of money on you.
- gettingoverit 1y agoActually AI has a lot to do with material design. I can't do a proper explanation, so please bear with this information dump: - We don't have a strong physical theory for solid state physics. Quantum stuff doesn't scale well from 1 atom to a mole of atoms, because 10^23 goes into the exponent of number of energy levels in the system, and then we also have to model interaction of those levels. - Physical properties of materials depend on their crystal structure, unevenness of that structure, spectrum of size of crystals, temperature, pressure, fields they're exposed to and current position of stars in the sky. Even the "wrong" solid state physics equations we have are highly non-linear. - State-of-the-art effects are usually achieved with combinations of such materials. - Exact parameters of the process used to put those materials together radically change the behavior of the system. Put that nanolayer with a different sort of vapor deposition or at different pressure, and the thing will stop working. Ever wondered why we don't produce all the neodymium magnets at N55 grade? Because even precise description of the process is not enough. - AI doesn't care about the exact physics, but is sometimes very good at navigating in the large parameter space. - Google have recently made AI that predicted thousands of novel material structures. They found more materials than were found by all human research over the whole humankind history. I wouldn't expect AI to explain what's going on in solid-state physics anytime soon, but exploring crystal structures, doping, and process parameters automatically might actually get us new materials a couple hundred years faster.
- SchemaLoad 1y agoWhat the article is talking about is using temperature probes and deciding if to run the compressor or peltier, or both depending on the temperature. That's what they are calling AI. Some if statements on a microcontroller.
- BearOso 1y agoIn the article, the picture shows the peltier cooler is on top and the compressor is separate on the bottom. The "AI" is an adjective for the compressor only. There is little to no discrete logic in a compressor, so calling it that is nonsense.
- gettingoverit 1y agoOh wow. I've seen so many "AI" that apparently I started reading around them.
- Gigachad 1y agoMaybe it’s hooked in to ChatGPT “You are a refrigerator, examine this photo of the temperature reading and decide (y/n) if the compressor should turn on”
- jansan 1y agoThe head of the board of a company I work with, who uses ChatGPT to get information on how to prune his plants and barely knows how to use Windows Explorer, decided that the whole company needs to go full AI. Everything has to be AI, and everyone has to learn AI. I thought that HN has been overdoing it with AI articles recently, but parts of the outside world seem to be much, much worse.