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Why AI reminds me of cloud computing
Even if you stipulated that cloud computing was going to be a big deal, the early cloud narrative got a lot of things wrong. To name just a...
Much of this ultimately derives from work done by Geoffrey Hinton in the 1980s on back propagation and NNs in the 1980s but it became much more interesting once plentiful storage, GPUS, and other specialized and fast computing components became available. As he told NPR: “[We need] the right policies to prepare and assist Americans to succeed in this new AI economy, we could make a wider array of workers much better at a whole range of jobs, lowering barriers to entry and creating new opportunities.” When I gave a presentation at the Linux Foundation Member Summit in 2023 in which I tried to answer what the next decade will bring for computing, AI was on the technologies list of course and I talked about some of the things I've discussed in this post.
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