Deepmind are working on solving the plasma control issue at the moment, I suspect they're probably using a bit of AI.... and I wouldn't put it past them to crack it.
> Accelerating fusion science through learned plasma control
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/accelerating-fusion-sc...
(2022)
People equating AI with other single-problem-solving technologies are clearly not seeing the bigger picture.
Auto-tagging of photos, generating derivative images and winning at Go, I will give you. There's been some progress on protein folding, I heard?
Where's the 21st century equivalent of the steam locomotive or the sewing machine?