Unlocking the next stage of human development requires manipulation of massive amounts of energy, and I definitely agree we should be all in on the utilization of nuclear energy. I'm all for trying to use AI to help achieve technological breakthroughs, but the largest hurdles preventing nuclear energy from achieving mass adoption are economic & regulatory in nature. Unless we can train chatGPT to convince Congress to push legislation or the President to subsidize markets, incentivize producers/buyers, construct infrastructure, etc., I can't imagine how effective employing AI is for advancing the nuclear energy cause.
The most practical instance? Identifying new ways to store/dispose nuclear waste, improve process efficiency, or advance basic academic research. I just asked chatGPT (trying to ignore the gallon of water used to answer my question)"what is the best way AI can be used to improve mass adoption of AI". 4 of top 5 answers economic/regulatory in nature. Maybe we can assemble a crack team of materials science engineers in a mini-nuclear power plant, call it SunGPT, and get Sequoia to put 50M behind it? I'm sure if we flash the stanford logo enough times on our slide deck we'll hypnotize them before they can tour the facility.
Unlocking the next stage of human development requires manipulation of massive amounts of energy, and I definitely agree we should be all in on the utilization of nuclear energy. I'm all for trying to use AI to help achieve technological breakthroughs, but the largest hurdles preventing nuclear energy from achieving mass adoption are economic & regulatory in nature. Unless we can train chatGPT to convince Congress to push legislation or the President to subsidize markets, incentivize producers/buyers, construct infrastructure, etc., I can't imagine how effective employing AI is for advancing the nuclear energy cause.
The most practical instance? Identifying new ways to store/dispose nuclear waste, improve process efficiency, or advance basic academic research. I just asked chatGPT (trying to ignore the gallon of water used to answer my question)"what is the best way AI can be used to improve mass adoption of AI". 4 of top 5 answers economic/regulatory in nature. Maybe we can assemble a crack team of materials science engineers in a mini-nuclear power plant, call it SunGPT, and get Sequoia to put 50M behind it? I'm sure if we flash the stanford logo enough times on our slide deck we'll hypnotize them before they can tour the facility.