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

[Roger Clarke]

 >> ... 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

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> 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 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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