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AI helps lighten the load on the electric grid – without skimping on people’s energy use.
(theconversation.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Does the sheer amount of claims that boil down to "chrust us" in this text feel fishy for anyone else? They claimed a lot of stuff, but the only thing resembling a description on how the system works boils down to
You don't need machine learning for that. Unless they're using the vague term "artificial intelligence" for something else; this vagueness also smells fishy to be honest.
The term AI is used for everything. If a company is selling a watch with an alarm feature, they would call that AI.
Power companies are already doing what they are doing now.
What exactly is this more than averaging out numbers in a database separated by time ranges, then getting a numbers from the load on the grid?