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According to her, "their" product used to be information. Then it became prediction. And now it's behavior modification, which they achieve by constantly mining us (the data we provide them).
At least IMHO, this is a more accurate depiction of the current state of affairs. Although in the end, it may be quite a similar metaphor, either way.
As stated in the typing documentation [0]: "the only legal parameters for type are classes, Any, type variables, and unions of any of these types".
On the contrary, I joyfully read and write code with type annotations. It is obviously very useful knowing which object types a function expects and which it will return.
I do believe that the Internet/WWW is one of our greatest inventions, though, so this is just nit-picking. :)
The first papers that used GPUs to train neural networks were from the end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s, before the Bitcoin price hike of 2013. But years before that, Nvidia had already introduced the CUDA architecture to GPUs in 2006 [1], which were used, among others things, to speed up algorithms to analyze seismic data for oil and gas exploration [2].
So with or without the "crypto fever", I believe the same advancements in GPU technology would have followed - but maybe not the scarcity brought by the investments in crypto mining. Because of this, we may also argue the opposite, that crypto got in the way of AI development and was one of the culprits of the "GPU rich vs GPU poor" division we hear/read about nowadays.
In a very similar fashion, though, I do tend to believe that PC gaming holds far more importance to the rise of both AI and crypto...
[1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nvidia-unveils-cuda-the-gpu-co...
https://www.wired.com/story/i-saw-the-face-of-god-in-a-tsmc-...
$ cat $(find . -type f | grep -vE LICENSE\|README\|BUILD\|bazel\|git\|docs) | sort -u | wc -l
8360 unique lines scattered across more than 100 files. Good luck deciphering that in a single day!
By the way, the first issue in the repo is a "Request for a more verbose README", which I agree with.
Not all crimes are preventable, which doesn't mean the laws aren't enforceable. Example: even though murder is illegal, people still commit murder, but they are rightfully punished for it, as the law mandates.
> [...] harming their own economy.
Do you have any proof that tech regulation is detrimental to the economy?
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-muon-detectors-remotely-3d-ima...