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Tao’s commentary is more practical and insightful than all of the “rationalist” doomers put together.

• Quekid5 1y ago
  That seems like a low bar :)
  • ipnon 1y ago
    My priors do not allow the existence of bars. Your move.
    • tempodox 1y ago
      You would have felt right at home in the time of the Prohibition.
• jmmcd 1y ago
  (a) no it's not (b) your comment is miles off-topic, as he is not addressing doom in any sense
• ks2048 1y ago
  I agree about Tao in general, but here, > AI technology is now rapidly approaching the point of transition from qualitative to quantitative achievement. I don't get it. The whole history of deep learning was driven by quantitative achievement on benchmarks. I guess the rest of the post is about adding emphasis on costs in addition to overall performance. But, I don't see how that is a shift from qualitative to quantitative.
  • raincole 1y ago
    He means people in this AI hype trend mostly focused on "now AI can do a task that was impossible mere 5 years ago", but we will gradually change our perception of AI to "how much energy/hardware cost to complete this task and does it really benefit us." (My interpretation, obviously)