| > I would like to learn more about what AI can do specifically to solve the climate crisis. Robots that install PV. I think there's even an YCombinator startup doing exactly that? Needs a higher degree of AI to function outdoors than in a nice fixed factory setting. (Especially if they also drive the trucks containing the PV, but who knows how long we'll have to wait for that AI…) > Figure out how to commoditize solar panels so that oil is too expensive. Good news: it already is :D > Building huge “foundation” models like I see huge AI labs doing is a bit like building better visualizations of an impending asteroid impact. It’s not really what we need right now. Mm. These things give increasing levels of generalisability: the biggest weakness of previous models, was that you could train them to learn one thing very well, and they'd suck at anything else. In one sense that's still true of the new models, it's just that they're being trained to build a world model from most written text and most pictures and most videos, so they have a very broad range of things they're OK at — much less likely to be confused by a rattlesnake they mistake for a powerline, for example. |