Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning

Re:Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with r... by dekhn on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:07AM (#30386642)

Could you be a bit clearer why you're being critical? Much of what DeepMind does is rooted in prior projects, they just sprinkle a little more RL and have a great press team. Nobody would use their system for real in production, just like when they published how they could run Google datacenters 5% cheaper in real time- turns out, nobody actually deployed that because the settings it came up with don't make sense to humans.

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Re:Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with r... by shmageggy on Friday February 18, 2022 @11:44AM (#30387976)

I'm not trying to be critical of your project, sorry if it came off that way. I'm just trying to clarify when you say "it's all been done before", exactly what in the current work had been done in your project. Although they are both in the fusion domain, I don't see how the current work builds on anything done in your work, even in a very distant way.

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