SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday (May 6) said he sees great potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance human civilization, but not when it comes to space travel. - REUTERS
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00:00 One of the areas where there's almost no AI used is space exploration.
00:06 So SpaceX uses basically no AI.
00:09 Starlink uses, does not use AI.
00:12 I'm not against using it, it's just we haven't seen a use for it.
00:16 I mean, with any given variant of or improvement in AI,
00:23 there's generally, like I'll ask it questions about the Fermi Paradox,
00:31 about rocket engine design, about electrochemistry,
00:36 and so far the AI has been terrible at all of those questions.
00:40 So it's very important to have a maximum truth-seeking AI
00:44 and a maximally curious AI.
00:48 And I think that's most likely to foster human civilization
00:54 because we are much more interesting than a bunch of rocks.
00:58 So although I think Mars, I love Mars obviously,
01:02 but you could render Mars quite easily
01:05 because it kind of looks like a section of the Arizona desert.
01:09 It's like red rocks.
01:12 But the rendering complexity of human civilization
01:16 is vastly greater by many orders of magnitude.
01:18 So I think an AI that is truth-seeking, maximally curious,
01:23 would foster human civilization to see where it goes.