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sure, but what nobody expected how QUICKLY the efficiency progress has been - aviation took about 30 years to progress from "the rich" to "everybody", personal
by ddalex 2y ago
sure, but what nobody expected how QUICKLY the efficiency progress has been - aviation took about 30 years to progress from "the rich" to "everybody", personal computers about 20 years (from 1980s to 2000s), I think the market expected to have at least 10 years of "rich premium" - not 2 years and get taken to the cleaners by the economic archenemy, China
- basch 2y agoThe Google transformer paper was 2017. ChatGPT was the “we can give a version away of this for free.” Llama was “we can afford to give away the whole product for free to even the playing field.” Every tech giant comes out with a comparable product simultaneously. And now a hedge fund, not even a megacap company, can churn out a clone by hiring a small or medium size engineering team. Really this should be an indictment of corporate bloat, having hundreds of thousand headcount companies distracted by performance reviews, shareholders, marketing, rebuilding the same product they launched two years ago under a new name.
- whinendine 2y agoTransformer paper was 2017
- fuzztester 2y ago>Really this should be an indictment of corporate bloat, having hundreds of thousand headcount companies distracted by performance reviews, shareholders, marketing, rebuilding the same product they launched two years ago under a new name. Yeah. There are some shorter words or acronyms for it though, roughly equivalent to your about 30-word paragraph above: IBM DEC Novell Oracle MS Sun HP ... MBA , all in their worse days or incarnations or ...
- timschmidt 2y agoAnyone who's ever read Kurzweil isn't surprised.