Forbes October 7, 2024
Humanity’s largest machine is demanding an overhaul. We built this behemoth haphazardly and yet we rely on it absolutely. Now we must fix it.
The electrical grid is the vascular system of modern society—but it wasn’t originally designed for its current immense scale. Nor was it designed to evolve, as it must, to seamlessly assimilate an inpouring of clean energy sources like wind and solar.
This brewing crisis presents one of the highest-stakes challenges imaginable for infotech as a field: Across trillions of overtaxed, aging components—most of which date back to the 1960s and 1970s—which ones demand maintenance first?
Predictive AI to the rescue—and boy do I mean it this time. Only with machine learning models will we be able...
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