Comment by Balooga
15 hours ago
> Seems like AI could help massively there, by removing a huge bottleneck around technical elaboration and application seeking.
Are you proposing that humanity should rely on AI to determine the fields of study that should be perused and those that should be defunded?
Why don't you first come up with an AI that can predict if the stock market will go up or down tomorrow, with 99.999% accuracy. Should be really simple as it only needs to answer what will happen tomorrow.
After that, come up with the AI that will predict how actions or non-actions today may affect outcomes 100 years into the future.
> Are you proposing that humanity should rely on AI to determine the fields of study that should be perused and those that should be defunded?
We already have examples of politicians relying on chatbots to understand problems. I wouldn't be at all surprised if, given a few more years, the above will be effectively the case without any deliberate effort.
<snark> And this is a step above the bottom, because at least they are trying to understand. </snark>