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The bun acquisition is driven by current AI capabilities. This argument requires us to believe that AI will just asymptote and not get materially better. Five
by drcode 10mo ago
The bun acquisition is driven by current AI capabilities.
This argument requires us to believe that AI will just asymptote and not get materially better.
Five years from now, I don't think anyone will make these kinds of acquisitions anymore.
- 0x3f 10mo ago> This argument requires us to believe that AI will just asymptote and not get materially better. That's not what asymptote means. Presumably what you mean is the curve levelling off, which it already is.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoThis seems overly pedantic. The intended meaning is clear.
- 0x3f 10mo agoHardly, asymptotic behavior can be anything, in fact that's the whole question: what happens to AI performance as we tend to infinity? Asymptoting to `y = x` is very different to levelling off.
- bigstrat2003 10mo ago> This argument requires us to believe that AI will just asymptote and not get materially better. It hasn't gotten materially better in the last three years. Why would it do so in the next three or five years?
- bitwize 10mo agoDeep learning and transformers have given step functions in AI's capabilities. It may not happen, but it's reasonable to expect another step-function development soon.
- nitwit005 10mo agoAn Anthropic engineer was getting some attention for saying six months: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1p771rb/anthropic_engineer_says_software_engineering_is/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1p771rb/anthropic... I assume this is at least partially a response to that. They wouldn't buy a company now if it would actually happen that fast.