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An interesting article, with many good points (I particularly like the reminder that unless you're competing with OpenAI, AI is in the solution space) but despi
by gpjt 3y ago
An interesting article, with many good points (I particularly like the reminder that unless you're competing with OpenAI, AI is in the solution space) but despite the repetition that this time is different to the Internet, I do feel that if you replaced "AI" with "Internet" you'd get something that could have been written in 1996.
- gmays 3y agoThe core difference is that the internet was about distribution while AI is about intelligence, which includes the ability to create things. The internet is probably the closest the comparison, which is why I get your point, but far off in terms of the scale of the implications. The hardest thing about AI is that we don't have intuitions for it. It will make the exponential growth that the internet brought look linear by comparison.
- Aerroon 3y agoI think the closest comparison to AI is the assembly line. None of the current AI offerings make sense without scale. AI also helps enhance some work, but it's not the product itself that the end user wants.
- ben_w 3y agoI'd say AI is more like a 3D printer than an assembly line, and not just because both sound futuristic. Assembly lines make one thing efficiently, by breaking down the complete task into small units such that no single person needs much training. This is basically what UNIX has been doing since at least the command line pipe operator was invented. 3D printers are general purpose and can kinda make anything in principle, but in practice the cheap ones are very limited while the one for building a rocket engine is priced at "hire a team of full-time engineers to build and maintain it", and in any case these are not a good choice for reliable mass production. This seems like a better, though still flawed, pattern match to AI.