[stirlo]

I fail to see how AI can really assist with this.

Whatever model the AI is fed is going to contain an enormous number of assumptions many of which we have a very limited ability to scientifically test and validate prior to using them as inputs.

If the inputs are faulty if doesn’t matter how smart the AI is it’s going to produce inaccurate results.

[kkfx]

It's not a matter of design, such ideas, similar to "in-space shields" and so one are childish ideas by some grown but not really grown mentally, children.

Can theoretically reflect Sun light? Of course yes. On scale? NO. We can't build a multi-million square km mirror in space, we can't spray gazillion of tons "powder" of any kind in the sky and so on.

Oh, surely when we start to experimenting fly most people say "that's impossible, a childish dream" BUT such experiments do take scale into account. Even in the recent past with experiments like lowering the sea level in the Mediterranean or re-fertilize again central Asia (also ignoring the vast amount of salty land there) was reasoned on scale and dropped because at scale they are simply absurd.

Having loss too much culture in reformed education systems to produce Ford model workers "useful idiots" in the ancient Greek language we are now unable to distinguish between "crazy but perhaps possible" and "childish dreams".

[bluenose69]

I also fail to see how AI will be all that helpful in this problem. But I suppose it's not all that surprising to see such a message on a site that's about AI.

[IngvarLynn]

The real reason why these topics met is that Andrew Ng is a prominent politician.