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Sorry but that's a ridiculous statement. It's like saying all the cloud technology we have today is not much more than having VMs. Yes, AI is hyped, but it made
by pesenti 9y ago
Sorry but that's a ridiculous statement. It's like saying all the cloud technology we have today is not much more than having VMs. Yes, AI is hyped, but it made some very unexpected progress over the past 5 years (e.g., solving facial recognition). More than many experts expected.
- mbrumlow 9y agoCan you please define this term "cloud technology"? I always thought it was a marketing term for "the internet", which then would be just a bunch of servers, vms, and containers; all of which we have had for over 20 years.
- derekp7 9y ago"cloud technology" is "servers, VMs, containers" that is also SER (Somebody Else's Responsibility). Hence the term "cloud", as that was always used in network diagrams to refer to network connection infrastructure that wasn't yours.
- votepaunchy 9y agoWhat is novel about "the internet"? We've been sending data over telegraph wires for nearly 200 years. The Internet is just someone else's cable.
- mbrumlow 9y agoThat was my point, you just went back further in history than I did :p
- freehunter 9y agoThen your point is wrong. What's so novel about CPUs? We've had sand since the Earth was first formed! I swear the tech industry has more luddites than the Amish.
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- hyperbovine 9y agoThe Amish are not luddites.
- freehunter 9y agoThey are not capital-L official Luddites, but they could be classified as colloquial lowercase-L luddites.
- gue5t 9y agoPacket switching and distributed routing protocols.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoIt's turtles all the way down to the Big Bang.
- warent 9y agoSince when are cables such a unique idea? The telegraph is nothing more than a large number of fancy carrier pigeons as a service, which we've had since the 12th century at least.
- gue5t 9y ago"It's like saying all the cloud technology we have today is not much more than having VMs." No shit? Unless you mean that it's ignoring the "distributed systems" part of the cloud, which is mostly a shitshow. The provisioning/configuration-management stacks are all complete wrecks, stacking hacks atop ad-hoc container schemes atop a poorly-design OS. A real distributed OS would be so much simpler and more robust. Calling it AI is very misleading when there has been minimal progress toward actual reasoning (the closest I've seen being some LSTM work on answering simple queries about scenarios based on prose descriptions of them). It's ML, as in "learning a function", not as in "general-purpose learning like an intelligent agent does".