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The Dawn of Mediocre Computing
With all the challenges in ethics and computation, and the knowledge needed from fields like linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience, and not just mathematics and computer science, it will take a village to raise to an AI.
Gary Marcus • Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
Going back to Excel and shifting my metaphor up a level, today ChatGPT sometimes seems more like the original PCs than like Excel (or VisiCalc). It’s a general purpose technology, there’s a command line, and some stuff that’s theoretically magic, and a few things that are extremely useful to a few people, but we don’t yet have the richness of all t... See more
Benedict Evans • Unbundling AI
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Jul 4
Same here; I'm not rubbishing the benchmarks, they have their uses, but Sonnet 3.5 just *feels* so far ahead of anything else, I had to go for a long walk on the beach after using it to contemplate how long humanity has left.
Sonnet 3.5 is able to have thoughtful and nuanced conversations on complex topics and to be proactive in codin... See more
Jul 4
Same here; I'm not rubbishing the benchmarks, they have their uses, but Sonnet 3.5 just *feels* so far ahead of anything else, I had to go for a long walk on the beach after using it to contemplate how long humanity has left.
Sonnet 3.5 is able to have thoughtful and nuanced conversations on complex topics and to be proactive in codin... See more
Ethan Mollick • Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
When you look around at all the major candidates for wealth-production frontiers today — blockchains, AI, biotech, renewables — none of them seems capable of producing enough of a grand narrative slipstream to bind today’s complex and large modern societies. So I have to conclude that we’re in for a great deal of antiflocking and divergence.