Nuclear Power Is Back. and This Time, AI Can Help Manage the Reactors

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PRO-AID performs real-time monitoring and diagnostics using generative AI combined with large language models that notify and explain to staff when something seems amiss at a plant. It also uses a form of automated reasoning—which uses mathematical logic to encode knowledge in AI systems

Seems they've gone to great effort to re-create MS Vistas UAC - the alert box that popped up that said "Are you sure?" twenty times a day. It trained people to click OK by reflex.

They've been talking about a nuclear renaissance since roughly a decade before Fukushima.

It's just getting kind of weird and sad now.

We will all end up in some life analogue of Paranoia GURPS.

https://writeups.letsyouandhimfight.com/gorfzaplen/paranoia/...

This is absurd. What you want for any critical system are human interpretable rules which tell the operators how the system is currently functioning. Gathering that information is obviously useful, but if the human staff isn't constantly interpreting it, something is going very wrong.

I can not imagine this AI ever having any use, personell failures will not be mitigated by an LLM and routine operations need to be human supervised.

LLMs are not useful here, they are useful if the rules making up a system can not be formalized and you need statistical methods to extract information.

What the actual fuck. No.

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