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I read a while back that the PLAN was using AI specifically to quickly generate many iterations of more efficient and compact electrical grid layouts for their ships, and I think that's a really neat and levelheaded way to use AI. No marketing bullshit, no insane and dangerous cost-cutting measures, just "generate a path between these points while staying at least x centimeters away from y and z subsystems at all times, give me 50 variants."
That's just called metaheuristics and they've been a thing since the 70s. Super super interesting, but calling it an AI is a stretch.
Even back then there was a bunch of grifters peddling the stuff, I remember reading a book about 1900s rocket engineering. It included an anecdote where the army paid a company a bunch of money to make a computer spit out the most energetic compounds for use as rocket fuel. Naturally none of them were physically possible to synthesize or exist for more than a nanosecond at .1 K.
One of the lead designers on Spore described this design process as [paraphrasing] automating the thought processes of subject matter experts. In the case of Spore, that subject matter was creature design, but every single model had to be fine tuned to exclude large swaths of the design space which the model made possible, but were undesirable in some way. Automation of expertise followed by expert review is the way to go. It makes expertise more efficient and also tends to lower the bar to access to that expertise.
Edit: also, this has been a standard technique for decades and “AI” is often used as a marketing term to rebundle old tech that’s gotten faster.
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