This is a correct statement of our current situation. Do you know which book it is the first paragraph of the Preface to? (Hint: it’s not Mein Kampf) “A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West. The loss of national ambition and interest in the potential of science and technology, and resulting decline of government innovation across sectors, from medicine to space travel to military software, have created an innovation gap. The state has retreated from the pursuit of the kind of large-scale breakthroughs that gave rise to the atomic bomb and the internet, ceding the challenge of developing the next wave of pathbreaking technologies to the private sector—a remarkable and near total placement of faith in the market. Silicon Valley, meanwhile, turned inward, focusing its energy on narrow consumer products, rather than projects that speak to and address our greater security and welfare.” The Personal Computer and the Smart Phone are two valid examples of consumer products which are powerful and general, although it is not their individual scale that makes them large, but their scalability to large populations. Their appeal as consumer products does not make them small. It is their popularity and contributions to productivity and social interaction that make them major advances. The drive for quick money through appealing new features is weakening their power as technological and social innovation, though, a tendency that popular AI shares, and which can be beaten with serious, value driven innovation rather than cash income driven innovation. submitted by /u/ScientistMundane7126
Originally posted by u/ScientistMundane7126 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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