Also interesting is using AI for plasma control. It didn't exactly say how they're using AI, which is nice to know when talking about real-time code that handles temperatures in the millions of degrees.
> Artificial intelligence software, recently developed by TAE with help from Google, should keep the fusion fuel stable even at the 3-billion-degree temperatures needed in a commercial-scale power plant. “A year ago I was concerned about the ability to control the machine,” Binderbauer says, “but no longer.”Courtesy of TAE Technologies
which implies that it's being used for plasma control, is a lie.
It seems a bit overly-aggressive to accuse them of lying because some pop-sci journalist heard tensorflow and went straight to "artificial intelligence." And even there, it's an understandable and common hype.
It doesn't take away from the point that they're doing some really interesting and novel computational physics to make this thing work.