• RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    What even would it mean to “win” the “ai” race? AI is a broad and almost meaningless term. The space race had a concrete end which was getting to the moon. What’s the equivalent in this context?

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      12 days ago

      The space race wasn’t aimed at the moon, we decided to call that the finish line after the fact because it was the only metric that allowed us to declare ourselves the winner

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      They have copper 3D printers producing rocket engines and adaptive robotics manufacturing lines, so once those technologies are truly ready for export I’ll say they’ve really won the CEM & contact-rich manipulation model race.

      Rather than waiting for some kind of benchmark look at how it changes conditions. Is the west even running? Not the moon, more important, the “developing” economies