For now, the artificial intelligence tool named Neutron Enterprise is just meant to help workers at the plant navigate extensive technical reports and regulations — millions of pages of intricate documents from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that go back decades — while they operate and maintain the facility. But Neutron Enterprise’s very existence opens the door to further use of AI at Diablo Canyon or other facilities — a possibility that has some lawmakers and AI experts calling for more guardrails.
Huh, it is really Russian roulette with how we’re all gonna die, could be WW3, could be another pandemic or could a bunch of AIs hallucinating and causing multiple nuclear meltdowns.
just gave me a great idea, brb gonna go write a “woke mind virus” for AI.
Don’t forget he inevitable climate change.
I can only hope my bingo card somehow explodes & kills me.
Everything reminds me of her…
Looks like it’s a bit nippy out there, brrrr.
The LLM told me that control rods were not necessary, so it must be true
The chatbot said 3.6 Roentgen is just fine and the core cannot have exploded, maybe we heard a truck driving by
Finally we get the sequel to “Chernobyl” … Based in America…
Live action at that
They made the prequel already - wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident.
What could go wrong?
using AI in a nuclear plant at Diablo Canyon… it’s so on the nose you’d say it’s lazy writing if it were part of the backstory of some scifi novel.
Well, considering it’s exclusively for paperwork and compliance, the worst that can happen is someone might rely on it too much and file incorrect, I dunno, license renewal with the DOE and be asked to do it again.
Ah. The horror.
When it comes to compliance and regulations, anything with the literal blast radius of a nuclear reactor should not be trusted to LLM unless double or triple checked by another party familiar with said regulations. Regulations were written in blood, and an LLM hallucinating a safety procedure or operating protocol is a disaster waiting to happen.
I have less qualms about using it for menial paperwork, but if the LLM adds an extra round-trip to a form, it’s not just wasting the submitter’s time, but other people’s as well.
All the errors you know about in the nuclear power industry are human-caused.
Is this an industry with a 100% successful operation rate? Not at all.
But have you ever heard of a piece of paperwork with an error submitted to regulatory officials and lawyers outside the plant causing a critical issue inside the plant? I sure haven’t. Please feel free to let me know if you are aware of such an incident.
I would encourage you to learn more about how LLM and SLM structures work. This article is more of a nothingburger superlative clickbait IMO. To me, at least it appears to be airgapped if it’s running locally, which is nice.
I would bet money that this will be entirely managed by the most junior compliance person who is not 120 years old, with more senior folks cross checking it with more suspicion than they would a new hire.
Diablo Canyon
The nuclear power plant run by AI slop is located in a region called “Diablo Canyon”.
Right. We sure this isn’t an Onion article? …actually no, it couldn’t be, The Onion’s writers aren’t that lazy.
Fuckin whatever, I’m done for the night. Gonna head over to Mr. Sandman’s squishy rectangle. …bet you’ll never guess what I’m gonna do there!!
Can we not have the lying bots teaching people how to run a nuclear plant?
It’s just a custom LLM for records management and regulatory compliance. Literally just for paperwork, one of the few things that LLMs are actually good at.
Does anyone read more than the headline? OP even said this in the summary.
I agree with you but you could see the slippery slope with the LLM returning incorrect/hallucinate data in the same way that is happening in the public space. It could be trivial for documentation until you realize the documentation could be critical for some processes.
If you’ve never used a custom LLM or wrapper for regular ol’ ChatGPT, a lot of what it can hallucinate gets stripped out and the entire corpus of data it’s trained on is your data. Even then, the risk is pretty low here. Do you honestly think that a human has never made an error on paperwork?
NOOOOOO ITS DOING NUCLEAR PHYSICS!!!111
It’s eating the rods, it’s eating the ions!
What could possibly go wrong?
Fucking christ…
SkyNet is fully operational, operating at 60 teraflops.
to people who say it’s just paperwork or whatever it doesn’t matter: this is how it begins. they’ll save a couple cents here and there and they’ll want to expand this.
Dave, I don’t known what to tell you but you can’t come in alright?
