2020 – Page 2 – AI Impacts

The Boeing 747-400 covers around 2.1m/MJ and moves mass at around 0.39 – 0.83 kg.m/J

The Airbus A320 covers around 7.8 m/MJ and moves mass at around .33 – .61 kg.m/J.

The North American P-51 Mustang flew around 0.073—0.092 m/kJ and moved mass at around 0.25 – 0.50 kg.m/J

The Vickers Vimy flew around 0.025—0.050 m/kJ and moved mass at around 0.081 – 0.25 kg.m/J.

The Wright model B flew around 0.10—0.21m/kJ and and moved mass at around 0.036 – 0.12 kg.m/J

The Wright Flyer flew around 0.08-0.17m/kJ, and moved mass at around .02 – .06 kg.m/J

Katja Grace Nov 2020

Sometimes we think of ‘artificial intelligence’ as whatever technology ultimately automates human cognitive labor…

AI took over 30 years to go from beginner level to superhuman level

AI took about twenty years to go from beginner level to high professional level.

Computer image classification performance took 3 years to go from untrained human level to trained human level