DeepMind's AlphaZero Engineering Use Cases – Hacker Noon

The possibilities go from an electric motor, to a gasoline engine, to an entire car, to perhaps somewhere far beyond our own imaginations. Using the parameters of how something is manufactured, AlphaZero should be able to optimize, to near perfection, almost any design. It could start simply: for example, AlphaZero could optimize the way the copper wire is spun around the central rotating rod of a motor. It could do this all virtually by simulating it in a computer program. It would start out by randomly moving the arm that directs the wire as the copper is spun around the central rod.