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AI Just Cleared A Big Hurdle On The Road To Nuclear Fusion Energy

We've had Nazi AIs, art thief AIs, and gobbledegook AIs. Welcome to the other end of the bell curve.

Therein lies another problem: this state of matter is so energetic and superheated that it’s easy for the fuel to “tear” – to lose stability and escape the magnetic fields keeping it within the reactor – thus putting an end to any fusion within milliseconds. “Previous studies have generally focused on either suppressing or mitigating the effects of these tearing instabilities after they occur in the plasma,” explained first author of the new paper Jaemin Seo, now an assistant professor of physics at Chung-Ang University in South Korea, in a statement. “We don’t teach the reinforcement learning model all of the complex physics of a fusion reaction,” explained Azarakhsh Jalalvand, a research scholar in Kolemen’s lab and coauthor of the paper.

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