Princeton put AI in charge of a fusion-plasma control loop running every 20 milliseconds; in one test it predicted a damaging instability 200 ms early and stopped it before it began
- Nuclear fusion illustration Photo: CanvaInside a steel vault at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a superheated whirl of charged particles spins in near vacuum, held in place by invisible magnetic fields.
- This is a fusion plasma, the same kind of matter that powers the Sun, and it is notoriously difficult to control.
- In a recent breakthrough, researchers handed part of that control to an artificial intelligence (AI) system that makes decisions every 20 milliseconds, far faster than any human operator could manage.
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- Nuclear fusion illustration Photo: CanvaInside a steel vault at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a superheated whirl of charged particles spins in near vacuum, held in place by invisible magnetic fields.
- This is a fusion plasma, the same kind of matter that powers the Sun, and it is notoriously difficult to control.
- In a recent breakthrough, researchers handed part of that control to an artificial intelligence (AI) system that makes decisions every 20 milliseconds, far faster than any human operator could manage.
Sources: Times of India