Explained: What is Google's DeepMind and how is it being used in nuclear fusion

In the race to create and contain carbon-free nuclear fusion energy, Alphabet’s artificial intelligence lab DeepMind is the latest contributor In the race to create and contain carbon-free nuclear fusion energy, Alphabet’s artificial intelligence lab DeepMind is the latest contributor. In collaboration with the Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL — a university in Lausanne, Switzerland — the DeepMind AI has applied its algorithms to control the plasma inside the nuclear fusion reactor, that’s hotter than the sun’s surface, and maintain its temperature long enough to take energy out of it. Existing nuclear power stations work on nuclear fission reactions that create energy by splitting atoms, a nuclear fusion reactor works exactly opposite of that, it releases energy by combining atoms. DeepMind’s contribution to nuclear fusion research As per a report by _Business Insider, t_he artificial intelligence lab and its co-researchers trained an algorithm on the Swiss Center’s simulator to hypothesize by itself how best to control the magnetic coils, through the use of reinforcement learning.