{"id":89682,"date":"2019-04-18T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/artificial-intelligence-speeds-efforts-to-develop-clean-virtually-limitless-fusion-energy"},"modified":"2019-04-22T01:26:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T08:26:44","slug":"artificial-intelligence-speeds-efforts-to-develop-clean-virtually-limitless-fusion-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/artificial-intelligence-speeds-efforts-to-develop-clean-virtually-limitless-fusion-energy","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence speeds efforts to develop clean, virtually limitless fusion energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-speeds-efforts-to-develop-clean-virtually-limitless-fusion-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, could now speed the development of safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy for generating electricity. A major step in this direction is under way at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University, where a team of scientists working with a Harvard graduate student is for the first time applying deep learning\u2014a powerful new version of the machine learning form of AI\u2014to forecast sudden disruptions that can halt fusion reactions and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamaks that house the reactions.<\/p>\n<p><b>Promising new chapter in fusion research<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research opens a promising new chapter in the effort to bring unlimited energy to Earth,\u201d Steve Cowley, director of PPPL, said of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1116-4\">findings<\/a>, which are reported in the current issue of <i>Nature<\/i> magazine. \u201cArtificial intelligence is exploding across the sciences and now it\u2019s beginning to contribute to the worldwide quest for fusion power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-artificial-intelligence-efforts-virtually-limitless.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-artificial-intelligence-efforts-virtually-limitless.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-artificial-intelligence-efforts-virtually-limitless.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-artificial-intelligence-efforts-virtually-limitless.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, could now speed the development of safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy for generating electricity. A major step in this direction is under way at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89809,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89682\/revisions\/89809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}