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Comment Re:It's an ad programme for "new space" startups (Score 2) 122

I think that SpaceX is going to build the satellites on the Moon using robots and launch them using rails to minimize launch cost. In theory is sounds like a good plan.

Personally, I think we will invent more efficient AI faster than the factory is up and running, but I have to admit that SpaceX makes the world more interesting so I have nothing against them.

Comment Re:Allocation of resources (Score 1) 118

Medical research is not a finite resource. The more money you have on the field, the more people will join the field. And pretty much any research you do, can benefit other research in unexpected ways. There are even some worm researchers and yogurt researchers who have made significant contributions to medical research.

Comment One employee built an app that turned a nearly... (Score 1) 142

"One employee built an app that turned a nearly four-hour manual process into a one-second automated check, saving tens of thousands of hours annually. "

This is the reason why AI will take jobs. World is full of tasks that are dead easy to automate, but no-one has just not done it yet. AI doesn't have to be smart, it doesn't even need to be good. If it can write a script that compiles, it can automate.

Comment Re:Get rid of homework (Score 1) 58

Grades increase extrinsic motivation, but they often hurt intrinsic motivation. I've been thinking that we should replace grades with a single percentage number per subject. This number would tell that you have learned for example 12% of math. This percentage would be calculated automatically based on your answers on controlled environment (tests or class room work). Behind this number would be actual data that shows exactly the things you have not yet learned, so teaching could be targeted there. But as tests would sometimes test past knowledge also, the number might drop also.

The benefit of this single number would be that it would be very simple way to tell how much knowledge a person has and long term learning would provide better scores than studying just for the test.

Comment Re:lower work week is a red herring (Score 2) 71

"within a century (by 2030), rapid technological progress would create so much wealth and productivity that people would only need to work a 15-hour workweek"

You have to wait 4 more years before you can claim that he was wrong. And note that he didn't say that people would work 15 hour weeks, he said that would need to. I actually could do that, I could work for 15 hours only and live with that, but I have decided to work more and retire early.

Comment Re: Meanwhile... (Score 1) 76

There are plenty of cases where AI has been used to train another AI, usually to make lighter and cheaper AI, which is in some cases better than original. For example AlphaZero was trained this way. There are some examples where humans have done similar things, one European young mathematician comes to mind for example.

Comment Re:Will this eventually kill chatgpt? (Score 1) 114

There are plenty of things they could do.
1. You can hire people to generate content. This has been often done with medical LLM training.
2. You can generate content. This can be done when training LLM to generate code or math. Outside of LLM, it has also been done in medical imaging training.
3. You can make smarter LLM that doesn't need that much training data (this is what Google Deepmind aims to do, not OpenAI, but it is an alternative for them also)

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