I’m wondering what advantage, if any, does AI really give for a nation? All I’ve really seen is that it can make people in beauracratic jobs be a touch more productive, but these jobs are already bullshit to begin with and are not producing real value. All this is doing is reducing some of the costs so that companies can report a bit more profit for the quarter.
Then there’s all the slop AI can produce which doesn’t really mean anything for competitive advantage. And there’s also “AI integration” in products that don’t really need it. So yea unless some compelling use case for AI is discovered, I feel like it’s another crypto.
MLMs are crazy useful in processing massive amounts of data for a bunch of scientific applications, and AI in general has uses in manufacturing and infrastructure, but the mass marketed LLM slop is not that and absolutely not necessary (or even particularly useful) for an individual.
Yea I tend to use “AI” as a term for generative AI, which I should stop cause of how broad it is. I definitely see the usefulness of machine learning models for research purposes. I haven’t heard of how it’s used in manufacturing and infrastructure though, interested in looking more into that.
Its most easy to understand application in manufacturing is in creating more efficient structures, as a ratio of strength to material used. It’s called “generative design”, which is kind of an alternative to another interesting technique that doesn’t typically use AI called “topology optimization”, if you want to look at both of those. Unsurprisingly, they both end up looking very “organic”.
Kumikommunism already talked about manufacturing, but they do (/could be used to do) a lot of optimisation in infrastructure - stuff like ai-controlled traffic lights to relieve traffic flow, detecting vibrations in buildings or bridges to predict where preventative maintainance will be needed, energy demand prediction and distribution - stuff where the data sets are naturally massive or require extreme precision are perfect for AI. Then there’s the ai-powered “dark factories” that just need some attention from an engineer now and then, operating almost completely autonomously.
I’m wondering what advantage, if any, does AI really give for a nation? All I’ve really seen is that it can make people in beauracratic jobs be a touch more productive, but these jobs are already bullshit to begin with and are not producing real value. All this is doing is reducing some of the costs so that companies can report a bit more profit for the quarter.
Then there’s all the slop AI can produce which doesn’t really mean anything for competitive advantage. And there’s also “AI integration” in products that don’t really need it. So yea unless some compelling use case for AI is discovered, I feel like it’s another crypto.
MLMs are crazy useful in processing massive amounts of data for a bunch of scientific applications, and AI in general has uses in manufacturing and infrastructure, but the mass marketed LLM slop is not that and absolutely not necessary (or even particularly useful) for an individual.
Yea I tend to use “AI” as a term for generative AI, which I should stop cause of how broad it is. I definitely see the usefulness of machine learning models for research purposes. I haven’t heard of how it’s used in manufacturing and infrastructure though, interested in looking more into that.
Its most easy to understand application in manufacturing is in creating more efficient structures, as a ratio of strength to material used. It’s called “generative design”, which is kind of an alternative to another interesting technique that doesn’t typically use AI called “topology optimization”, if you want to look at both of those. Unsurprisingly, they both end up looking very “organic”.
This is the first article I found: https://parametric-architecture.com/nasa-uses-ai-to-design-mission-hardware-that-looks-somewhat-alien-and-weird/
That’s actually really cool
Kumikommunism already talked about manufacturing, but they do (/could be used to do) a lot of optimisation in infrastructure - stuff like ai-controlled traffic lights to relieve traffic flow, detecting vibrations in buildings or bridges to predict where preventative maintainance will be needed, energy demand prediction and distribution - stuff where the data sets are naturally massive or require extreme precision are perfect for AI. Then there’s the ai-powered “dark factories” that just need some attention from an engineer now and then, operating almost completely autonomously.
US Capital doesn’t want other world powers to perfect the ai-powered human face targeting auto-turrets before they do imo