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AI Is Throwing Battery Development Into Overdrive
Improving batteries has always been hampered by slow experimentation and discovery processes. Machine learning is speeding it up by orders of magnitude.
www.wired.com
Machine learning is basically training a system using test data and algorithms to predict. In this case, the AI is predicting performance after quick charging. Performance might be capacity, our favorite metric, and the one thing that decreases over time. Since it repeatedly discharges the batteries with a dump load, it can continually measure the performance after each test.