3 ms·
> AI and Quantum Computing come to mind as likely focus areas in addition to those already mentioned. Um, yeah, no. Pretty much all experimental QC students ca
by scottlocklin 7y ago
> AI and Quantum Computing come to mind as likely focus areas in addition to those already mentioned.
Um, yeah, no. Pretty much all experimental QC students capable of doing the work are accounted for. The theorists who don't hustle mostly can't get jobs, with good reason: it's mostly malarkey.
You'd think if there were some blackops AI center of genius out there, at least one of them would have a job at Facebook making $2m a year or at a hedge fund gobbling up the order books. There are none.
Neither the predator nor stealth choppers were particularly surprising. You can watch documentaries on youtube about stealth choppers like the RA-66 Comanche, and drones were in wide, boasted-of use in Vietnam.
FWIIW I did a little consulting work for SBIR places; most of the procurement officers got their ideas from shitty science fiction. I'm pretty sure we'll eventually get all the dumb things from Aliens no matter how impractical and useless in actual combat they are.
- balt_s 7y ago> You'd think if there were some blackops AI center of genius out there, at least one of them would have a job at Facebook making $2m a year or at a hedge fund gobbling up the order books. There are none. Perhaps they were TOO successful, and their AI escaped, eating the researchers on its way out. There's no way for us to know..