In the early days of Google, when I worked on websearch, if people asked me what I did there, I'd say: "I answer all the queries that start with S."

I remember around 2005 there were marquee displays in every lobby that showed a sample of recent search queries. No matter how hard folks tried to censor that marquee (I actually suspect no one tried very hard) something hilariously vile would show up every 5-10 mins.

I remember bumping into a very famous US politician in the lobby and pointing that marquee out to him just as it displayed a particularly dank query.

Still exists today. It's a position called Search Quality Evaluator. 10'000 people who work for Google whose task is to manually drag and drop the search results of popular search queries.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterh...

That would be the best news cycle of the whole boom

Scaling The Turk to OpenAI scale would be as impressive as agi

"The Turk was not a real machine, but a mechanical illusion. There was a person inside the machine working the controls. With a skilled chess player hidden inside the box, the Turk won most of the games. It played and won games against many people including Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin"

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk#:~:text=The%20Tur....

Like the "Just walk out" Amazon stores

It's just Ilya typing really fast.

No, it's just Amirah Mouradi (Ermira Murati) typing really fast.

And this human is Jensen Huang.