Apollo was much better value for money. It inspired generations to study and enter STEM fields, it gave us multitudes of technological advances, and it gave the entire world something to marvel at. It gave us the earthrise image, which fueled the environmental movement. What has "AI" inspired? What marvels will the enshittificatement of googling, or the latest deepfake garbage bestow upon us? If "AI" is our moonshot we're all well and truly fucked.
And IMHO this AI race will do something Apollo never did, at least not with people aboard… crash and burn.
I can’t tell if this is a joke. The Apollo mission did crash and burn and kill people.
Apollo 1 burned quite well unfortunately. But IMHO it makes no sense to compare those things anyways.