On 2/1/24 11:47, Stephen Loosley wrote:
How to Make Artificial Intelligence More Human in 2024 By Maxwell
Zeff December 20, 2023
https://gizmodo.com/how-should-we-regulate-ai-big-tech-startups-2024-1851101733
... “Godmother of AI,” Fei-Fei Li, wrote a Wall Street Journal
feature saying we need a “moonshot mentality” in 2024 around AI. ...
Some more funding for AI would be useful. For years I have been
attending "AI, ML and Friends" at ANU, to hear about work being done by
the researchers. https://cs.anu.edu.au/ai-ml-friends/
One area which could achieve short term commercial returns is optimizing
data centers for AI, and their energy use.
But an AI moonshot mentaility might result in the same short term
thinking as the Apollo program, with a loss of more worthwhile long term
programs. Throwing a lot of money at AI is not necessarily going to
produce quick results.
The '60s USSR & US space programs were a byproduct of building nuclear
armed ballistic missiles. Early US astronauts rode on converted
ballistic missiles. The Russian Soyuz launcher, still in use today, was
derived from a ballistic missile. Even the Saturn 1B rocket used for
early Apollo launches was made of components designed for Redstone
ballistic missiles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_IB#S-IB_stage
The Apollo program didn't produce much in the way of innovation, as it
was done in a hurry to achieve a limited objective (get people to the
moon by the end of the decade), using disposable rockets. As a result
space technology was held back. There were also other potentially more
useful, more long term programs, which could not be funded due to
revenue going to Apollo.
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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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