[SonicScrub]

Cool stuff for sure! But cheeky comments like this (and others I personally have made in this thread) are to do with the "AI" branding aspect of a thing that is just bog standard mechanical engineering work. Hooking up optimizers to simulation work is far from new. But that's being called "AI" now to drive news article clicks (and presumably to fish for investor capital).

[cesarb]

> Hooking up optimizers to simulation work is far from new. But that's being called "AI" now

It that being called "AI" just now, or has it been called "AI" since the beginning? A lot of the optimization algorithms we take for granted nowadays originated from AI research.

[JimDabell]

Genetic algorithms were being called AI back in the 90s.

[sahmeepee]

As per the article, it needs to be called AI to qualify for a pot of government funding.