S8 Ep211: INVESTING IN HUMAN INTELLECT OVER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Colleague Dr. Sabayashi Pal. Given an unlimited budget, Dr. Pal would prioritize human resource development over new telescopes, proposing a space study institute in Africa to train experts. He arg
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with David Livingston, Dr. Space of the Space Show, |
| 0:08.4 | and we've traveled to the ends of the galaxy, as I understand it, |
| 0:13.7 | to observe a supermassive black hole thanks to Dr. Sabayashi Powell of Middimore City College. |
| 0:20.9 | He's head of the Pure and Applied Scientist Department. |
| 0:23.9 | This is West Bengal. |
| 0:25.4 | But now we are granting the doctor an unlimited budget for his exploration of the cosmos. |
| 0:32.5 | What do you want to do with this, Sabayashi? |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.4 | Thank you, John. |
| 0:37.6 | So if you ask this question to 10 scientists in arbitrary astronomer, 9 out of 10, |
| 0:44.4 | we'll ask money for, say, one big telescope or, say, bigger competition facilities |
| 0:52.1 | or money for some space expedition. |
| 0:56.5 | Because if you have bigger telescope, it will give you a chance to have more photons |
| 1:02.9 | and then you can go deep and deep. |
| 1:05.9 | And if you have more computation power, then you can do bigger simulation. |
| 1:10.6 | You can analyze bigger data. And if you can do |
| 1:13.8 | a space exploration, then you are more free to go anywhere you want. But if you give me money, |
| 1:22.2 | then probably I will not spend money for any of that. Probably I'd like to spend money on human resource. |
| 1:30.3 | Because as I feel that with time, the big computer |
| 1:38.3 | or AI artificial intelligence is coming. |
| 1:42.3 | These facilities are giving us more freedom. |
| 1:47.0 | We can study much easily nowadays than the earlier times. |
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