[LINK] We need a “moonshot mentality” around AI in 2024

[Tom Worthington]

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