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Our Cities Were Designed for the Weather of the 1950s and ’60s | Researchers and city planners are coming up with innovative techniques to help cities adapt to a warmer climate

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Yaky

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Use artificial intelligence to reroute power for maximum efficiency, eking out extra performance to avoid blackouts

No idea what AI has to do with this. There are thought-out and verified processes for re-routing power. Using "AI" (trained on what exactly?) would lead to more problems IMO.

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For many years, before LLM's, people were obsessed with calling good statistics on cleaned up data "AI".

So, I bet some data scientist spent decades of their life generating a statistical model, and needing to get the product approved by some business bro sighed and said: "Yeah, it's AI, whatever"