Later in the article computer vision and edge detection is mentioned... But I also feel this is more like a traditional control problem rather than ai.
Yeah, the use of "AI" terminology is dubious here. They've replaced aiming via a pre-loaded ephemeris with a system that actually aims the reflected light by looking at where the light is ending up after being reflected and adjusting accordingly. There may be some machine learning going on in the sensing, but this feels an awful lot like basic feedback loop automation.
My biggest pet peeve is when AI is used to describe optimization models, and then people complain of black box algorithms, when the optimization is, in fact, perfectly transparent.
if each mirror is aiming independently, im not sure how computer vision helps. How do you know where your own bright light is vs 100 other ones.