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I think “being ahead in tech” can mean two things: we’ve refined and improved iteratively in things like reliability, distributed computing and processor tech b

• Keyframe 6y ago
  That's what I meant. Seems like, well the feeling is that, there was this cambrian explosion of ideas that were just then possible to be materialized due to tech finally being able to, well materialize them into that cambrian explosion. Right now I cannot think of much / any tech outside of real of possibility with tech we have. Take VR as an example, which is still not there, it was there in the 90's. Crude and various approaches, but there. Since, we had iPhone/mobile and ML recently. I cannot think of other seemingly leaps. I might be wrong, of course, since it's all based on a feeling.
  • fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
    I agree, although I don't know that ML is actually a "leap": my general impression is that a certain subset of "AI" techniques became practical because of GPU advances, which lead to an explosion of practical applications: the technique itself isn't particularly new, afaict.