Ironically there was notable news in the fusion reactor space this week as Gemini 4, building on the work of Matt Landreman and GPT-6 Astra a little while ago, expanded counterexamples to Grad’s conjecture which had claimed exact solutions for controlling a key aspect of fusion were impossible.
So fusion may actually be more around the corner thanks to the advances of capabilities of AI which helped prove that the fusion problems aren’t as hard as they were thought to be for decades.
And if you actually believe that, I have an amazing business proposition to you. So, there is a bridge in NY, and I can sell it to you for very little money…
Evidently, the only thing it’s good for is providing endless dribble for snake oil salesmen to scam people with. There is an endless barrage of “our latest and greatest magic just solved a problem” and when the dust settles it’s always some combination of exaggeration, lies, misunderstanding, and stolen work.
Even from my very limited understanding of high level fusion related math, I can bet it’s the same case here. At best they’re not lying and they provided a proof for some old math theorem. What I know is that fusion isn’t “one proven math problem away”, and I bet even if they’re not lying it will not help that much if at all.
Ironically there was notable news in the fusion reactor space this week as Gemini 4, building on the work of Matt Landreman and GPT-6 Astra a little while ago, expanded counterexamples to Grad’s conjecture which had claimed exact solutions for controlling a key aspect of fusion were impossible.
So fusion may actually be more around the corner thanks to the advances of capabilities of AI which helped prove that the fusion problems aren’t as hard as they were thought to be for decades.
And if you actually believe that, I have an amazing business proposition to you. So, there is a bridge in NY, and I can sell it to you for very little money…
Building on other people’s work to provide examples for something is actually one of the things an LLM can be good for.
Evidently, the only thing it’s good for is providing endless dribble for snake oil salesmen to scam people with. There is an endless barrage of “our latest and greatest magic just solved a problem” and when the dust settles it’s always some combination of exaggeration, lies, misunderstanding, and stolen work.
Even from my very limited understanding of high level fusion related math, I can bet it’s the same case here. At best they’re not lying and they provided a proof for some old math theorem. What I know is that fusion isn’t “one proven math problem away”, and I bet even if they’re not lying it will not help that much if at all.