Readit NewsBecause if NASA risked billions on "crazy ideas" they'd get shut down, being a government agency.
No point pretending it's all Elon.
The media needs to stop blindly attributing this to "Elon Musk". He did well taking the risks NASA was not allowed to take at the start. But these days he is toxic to the media and toxic to reporting, so for that reason alone the media could smarted up a little. Well done SpaceX and NASA engineers.
It's 100% Musk that this happened, literally no one else would have done it. Everyone thought it was dumb until today. No company, no government or sci fi movie for that matter had even thought of it in the first place.
SpaceX engineers given the green light by Musk, not NASA, made it a reality. That's not to say Elon didn't make many decisions along the way in the design and development of both Starship, the launch towers and everything else.
The point is, Elon deserves a hell of a lot of credit along with everyone else. Everyone has their part to play in the success of the mission.
It's not like engineers don't come up with wild ideas all the time to their leadership, but is the leadership good enough to understand the good ideas from bad ones? Take the risk, spend billions to actually execute?
Elon has enough of a physics/engineering background to ask the right questions, understand the trades engineers put in front of him, and make the risk/reward calculation to make the right decisions the ends up winning.
To get what SpaceX has you need strong technical leadership all the way up the chain. Many companies don't. Their CEOs are experts in legal, PR, finance, etc... They make poor technical decisions.
So from $75 to $200/M is a big premium for the convenience of one model and the quality of multi modal input/output. Will have to test and see if it's worth it.
Also is there still no way to connect users directly to OpenAI? Like directly from a user's browser to OpenAI's servers, without the user having to supply their own API key? How does this work with realtime that needs websockets? Do I need an intermediate proxy server for all my users conversations? Seems like a waste of bandwidth, an unnecessary failure point, and a privacy problem. I hope I am wrong.
And finally, we can see from normal human society that it is hardly ever the smartest humans who achieve the most or rise to the highest levels of power. There is no reason to believe that an AI with agency would an inherent "it's over" scenario
What is happening right now is so obvious that people have been predicting it for over 60 years. It is ingrained in our culture. Everyone knows what happens when the AI becomes smarter than us.
If you 'see no reason' then you are looking through a microscope. Lift your head up and look around. Agency isn't black and white, it is a gradient. We already have agency to some degree, and it is improving fast.
I'm not sure you realize this, but computers control everything. A dumb bug shut down windows computers around the world a month ago. A smart AI could potentially rewrite every piece of software and lock us out of everything.
Those medicines your friends and family need to stay alive? Yea the factories that produce them only work if you do what the AI says.
LLMs are going through the same thing now. Better and better every iteration but increasingly we're starting to see a fast approaching wall on what they can really do with the current paradigm.