9 tips for AI moon flights

There is currently a whole range of opportunities for startups to realize such moon landings, which have the potential to develop into established AI institutions.

It’s tempting and we’re really at a tipping point, so what should people consider when developing one of these projects?

After listening to some talks from our recent events, I’ve compiled a list of tips for young entrepreneurs and others on how to succeed with a moonshot AI project.

Take these for what they’re worth and think about the role of each in helping startups create roadmaps.

Build robust ecosystems.

A good tip is to build something with some level of complexity that has built-in support mechanisms and other components. You see this all the time in the open source world – someone doesn’t just release an app or platform, but also has supporting resources.

So this is a good principle to apply to AI moon landings.

Use high-quality data

Of course, data is the lifeblood of many of these AI projects. You want high-quality data, properly structured for your purposes and labeled where necessary, and data connected to the right ecosystems (going back to the point above). The data should flow seamlessly through the ecosystems and go where it is most valuable.

Involve the smartest people.

Acquisition is also an important part of this process, and we know this intuitively. Some experts say the brightest minds may be your own colleagues next door. Others say you should bring in new blood by proactively approaching them. In any case, it helps to bring better talent on board.

Think human-centered design

It’s so tempting to take humans out of the game and focus on what AI can do. But we don’t talk about AI as a decision-making tool or assistive technology just to spare humans’ feelings. We do it because this collaborative approach is the most sustainable in most cases, either on the customer or production side or both.

Find the right metrics

How do you measure AI success? Having the right benchmarks and systems in place to evaluate the success of your project will help you better align your own efforts for future success.

Quotes from a recent IIA panel on Moonshots:

“We wanted to attract the brightest minds to this. So we primarily fund young teachers at universities around the world. To get them, we go through a complex nomination process and we give them relatively unrestricted funding because we can’t really predict how it might work.” – Mark Greaves

How do you make sure that AI actually represents many different people? By having a decentralized AI ecosystem, with many different AIs representing many different people.” – Anna Kazlauskas

“As I mentioned, at least at our event, we have the advantage that our relationship with our customers is based on trust, so if we can leverage the power of data across their lives and maintain or even increase trust, that’s a huge opportunity.” – Rizwan Khalfan

(each of these points was mentioned in the panel that you can see in the video provided)

Consider decentralization

One of our panelists talked about the application to cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance, emphasizing that we can learn a lot from things like Ethereum mining and blockchain ledger technology.

Ultimately, decentralization will also be a guiding principle for non-financial technologies.

Follow the customer

This list would not be complete without a call to consider people’s interests when planning your lunar landing destination. This may seem clever to you, but if it is not useful to a larger audience, you are much less likely to achieve your goal.

Own your own assets

It could be demographic information about users. Or maybe it’s their avatars.

The idea of ​​users owning their own personal data, of personal data being owned, is gaining a lot of traction right now. I’d like to mention again that will.i.am came to our event and explained in detail some of the key reasons why in today’s world we need to make sure people own their own data.

This idea benefits everyone and is important to keep in mind when building.

These are some of the things I’ve heard from the special people who attend our events and give up their time to give us advice. We’ll be hearing more about this throughout the year.