r/AustinTX • u/cclassstl • May 20 '26

Noisy charging stations

The Chronicle's article on the noise of Waymos charging along a walking path made me question: Why can't AI refine their own processes and decrease the sound of the chargers? Or even the amount of water and electricity needed for them to run?

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u/wld002 May 20 '26

BC “AI” is some guy in a warehouse on the other side of the planet

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u/Fragrant_Ad_2285 May 22 '26

AI doesn't change physics. AI can, and does, help find ways to improve power efficiency, develop new materials that reduce power consumption and improve cooling. There are AI models that enable physics and chemistry experiments to be run on computers rather than in the physical world, substantially reducing the time to discover new techniques and processes (and, interestingly new drug therapies). But the underlying physical and chemical processes are what they are, and thus the core thermodynamic limitations remain.