FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoHow China gets better bang for its buck than America in AI. Its investment lags far behind America’s. Its models do notwww.economist.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up139
arrow-up139external-linkHow China gets better bang for its buck than America in AI. Its investment lags far behind America’s. Its models do notwww.economist.comFoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThat’s more due to the lack of new technology these days. AI aside most modern engineering is incremental improvements to existing technology—that’s the innovation everyone is doing.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoGenAI? Self-driving cars? Robots? Materials science? All science and innovation is incremental, but some have bigger impacts than others.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoIn order: GenAI? I said “AI aside” for a reason. Self-driving cars? Fair enough, though I don’t hear much about those these days. Robots? Materials science? No idea what’s going on with materials science, but robots aren’t exactly new, so this is incremental improvement to existing technology.
That’s more due to the lack of new technology these days. AI aside most modern engineering is incremental improvements to existing technology—that’s the innovation everyone is doing.
GenAI? Self-driving cars? Robots? Materials science?
All science and innovation is incremental, but some have bigger impacts than others.
In order:
I said “AI aside” for a reason.
Fair enough, though I don’t hear much about those these days.
No idea what’s going on with materials science, but robots aren’t exactly new, so this is incremental improvement to existing technology.