Post #3251359
2026-06-10 09:21 UTC
@sean_ae@post.lurk.org @rexi@mastodon.social ML and LLMs are two different things.
Machine Learning can be and is useful for large scale statistical analysis. LLMs are large scale statistical analysis of language corpus with a random number generator bolted on to mix up the results a bit.
We already use GPUs for nuclear modelling etc - nothing to do with what is being sold as "AI" currently, and I'm not sure what help LLMs would bring
See things like: https://www.anl.gov/aurora or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Capitan_(supercomputer)
Replies (1)
-
@sean_ae@post.lurk.org 2026-06-10 09:24
@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @rexi@mastodon.social oh sure i know that, been using ML for 10+ years, but barely touched transformer models if you're talking about LLMs specifically idk how useful they would be in developing fusion - just mentioning the ML use cos 'AI' but i understand what you mean obviously