Matt Wytock, founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based power marketer startup Gridmatic, discusses how the same methodologies used to generate art can help to decarbonise the grid.

Generative AI – the type of AI able to generate texts, images, audio or data in response to prompts – has become the latest ‘buzz’ with the publicity and popular interest around OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its introduction by other companies such as Microsoft with Bing AI and coming up Google and Meta. In practice, generative AI is not new but rather an evolution of AI as data processing capabilities – storage, power, speed – have advanced. While for many the pervasiveness of AI may not be apparent, the energy sector has been an early adopter with its need for modelling and forecasting, while other applications have included cybersecurity and theft […]