Ask HN: Has AI made you lose interest in landing humans on Mars?
Recent breakthroughs in AI just seem more exciting than space exploration in general and landing humans on Mars in particular.
Recent breakthroughs in AI just seem more exciting than space exploration in general and landing humans on Mars in particular.
Personally I feel this is a non sequiteur. I feel exactly the same as I always did about lemon curd, bricks and bimetallism in 1920s economic theory. AI hadn't changed what I think about fireworks or chocolate snow shoes.
So if you mean the hype machine then yes, I do think AI has displaced endless dribble about Mars, and there is a commonality between them, my previous paragraph not withstanding: they're both Hype. There is no fundamental underpinning which means the door plate rating matches the engine speed.
Mars is fantasy. AI hype is fantasy.
Chocolate snow shoes at least got chocolate. Mmm chocolate.
(Bimetallism was a thing. Robertson Davies introduced me to it in "World of wonders", but the Bunker-Hunt brothers also raised the spectre with a spectacularly failed attempt to corner the world's silver supply in the 1970s, which led to government intervention)
The only thing AI has caused me to lose interest in is any product that introduces AI features.
Not at all. Space is my primary area of interest.
Btw I accidentally invented a useful Martian calendar: https://github.com/DarkStar1982/exodus_calendar/
A: No. Neither has impacted the other for me.
Past that: We had an official promise of a manned mission to Mars by George Bush in 2004. He said we'd do it in 10 years.
Now is like then. I've not heard a realistic plan put forth.
These are two vastly different things that are really only connected by their value as marketing narratives.
I disagree that what's termed "AI" is more exciting than space exploration. Current "AI" feels a lot like NFTs/blockchain/cryptocurrency, and Windows NT before them.
Trump's ending the US space program, but what's more exciting than a planet inhabited entirely by robots? Robots that drive around and take pictures of a planet, the entirety of which people probably will never explore.