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How DeepMind uses Deep RL to control fusion plasma, Texas sues Meta over capturing facial identifiers without consent, China's SenseTime to use ML to detect defects in manufacturing

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Accelerating fusion science through learned plasma control

DeepMind released a paper last week on their research that applies Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) to control tokamak nuclear fusion reactors. For a bit of background: Deep RL trains a neural network that can make sequences of decisions in order to optimize some objective. Tokamak f…