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Re:Behind the curtain: what it feels like to work in AI righ... by burlesona on Friday April 07, 2023 @12:21AM (#35478004)
I don’t think you’re missing anything. I like the “calculator for words” analogy that was posted on HN a few days ago. It doesn’t seem like a revolutionary product, but it does seem like a fundamental innovation which will then unlock many more complex things in subtle ways. Calculators were arguably the predecessor to computers, which are kind of a big deal :)
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Re:Behind the curtain: what it feels like to work in AI righ... by JBiserkov on Friday April 07, 2023 @12:46AM (#35478128)
> Calculators were arguably the predecessor to computers, which are kind of a big deal :)

"A computer is a machine that moves data around and only occasionally performs computation on it." ;-)

Computers aren't great, because they can compute numbers faster, they're great because we've managed to encode text, audio, video, geospatial, etc. information as numbers, which allowed us to perform complex text, audio, video, geospatial, etc. operations.

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Re:Behind the curtain: what it feels like to work in AI righ... by int_19h on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:54PM (#35486242)
It's a reckon-mill.

https://gist.github.com/int19h/6fa34a86923cd681396393b21b9ab...

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