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
It automatically collects data on how people use energy in their homes and identifies opportunities to charge and discharge home battery storage.
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.
Plus absolutely no mention of how much energy the Merlin AI servers will consume, when AI server farms are known to consume enough energy to power a village or small city…
This, too. With some numbers they could even reason “look, this system demands X% energy, but you’re predicted to economise Y% in the long run, and Y > X”. But there’s nothing like that in the text.
Basically a press release
My colleagues and I have developed an artificial intelligence system that helps buildings shift their energy use to times when the electric grid is cleaner.
Meanwhile, AI systems are getting trained while using the equivalent of several countries’ use of electricity.
What a bullshit article. The headline itself is so deceptive it makes my blood boil. Now everyone will think AI is a net positive for reducing power usage while it’s all the contrary.
