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Re:Amazon’s plan for Alexa by seanmcdirmid on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:10AM (#21504908)
That progress has mostly come in the last 10 years, not 50. Before that we were just doing it wrong.
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Re:Amazon’s plan for Alexa by wongarsu on Monday November 11, 2019 @11:38AM (#21506214)
That doesn't mean we won't do it wrong for the next 30 years, or that we are doing it right right now.

We have to account for accelerating progress, but I'm not sure that's enough to bring us much closer than 50 years away

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Re:Amazon’s plan for Alexa by seanmcdirmid on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:13PM (#21506549)
Sure, we could hit another wall, deep learning could be a false peak, etc. On the other hand, it could just keep going. Tech companies make bets on this, and if they were conservative they wouldn’t be tech companies.
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