>> ... we need a “moonshot mentality” in 2024 around AI. ... > Some more funding for AI would be useful.
Yet more corporate welfare programs?In response to relentless spruiking by self-interested lobbyists, in relation to techniques that are enormously risky and uncontrolled?
For much more sceptical analysis, see: http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/AII.html#Th http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/AIP.html#App1 http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/AITS.html ______________________
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. ...
On 4/1/24 9:04 am, Tom Worthington wrote:
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 themoon 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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