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…

Perhaps it’s part of some effort to counter the bad reputation ai has been getting on the high energy demands? I grew up to be doubtful of any seemingly inoffensive news article out there

The term AI is used for everything. If a company is selling a watch with an alarm feature, they would call that AI.

Power companies are already doing what they are doing now.

What exactly is this more than averaging out numbers in a database separated by time ranges, then getting a numbers from the load on the grid?

yeah sometimes by ai they mean chat bot algorithms trained off of datasets and sometimes they mean anything thats an algorithm

They mention things like “learning” thermostats, which are completely useless devices, considering if I had the exact same schedule every day I would just program it accordingly. Instead it annoys me by constantly being wrong because it’s trying to “guess” when I’m going to be home.

I assume this system will be similarly annoying.