Meredith WhittakerApr 16, 2023
NYT "AI" explainer misleads. Deep learning techniques date from the 1980s, & "AI" had been hot/cold for decades, not slow until 2012. There was no new "single idea" in 2012. What WAS new, & propelled the AI boom, was concentrated resources (data/compute) controlled by tech cos.
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@Mer__edith yeah, apparently the world forgot about deep blue and others.

I remember back in 2008-2010 bumping into a bunch of shitty chat bots in secondlife.
Only recently has their been hype again. Why?
-its matured enough that it might be practical for a non-compsci major to leverage
-its matured enough to have more obvious practical applications (generating scripts and regular expressions as a programmer)
-its been opened to the public so they can play with it, leverage it

Apr 16, 2023 at 8:05pmtooot