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AI is a horse (2024)

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Re: AI is a horse (2024)

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Post by oliwary »

BoredomIsFun wrote: post #26
oliwary wrote: post #8

"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets you to the thing." My favorite quote from the excellent show halt and catch fire. Maybe applicable to AI too?

> excellent show "halt and catch fire". I found it very caricature, too saturated with romance - which is untypical for tech environment, much like "big bang theory".

IMO it really came into its own after the first season. S1 felt like mad men but with computers, whereas in the latter seasons it focused more on the characters - quite beautiful and sad at times.

Re: AI is a horse (2024)

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Post by Dilettante_ »

direwolf20 wrote: post #15
smitty1e wrote: post #4

"I've been through the desert On AI with no name It felt good to be out of the rAIn In the desert, you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain"

you forgot to write pAIn and it reminded me of this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nt9mRDa0nrc

>2 views

I'm not saying that's your video but it sure looks like that's your video ;)

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Post by crote »

direwolf20 wrote: post #13
latexr wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something like that used to be Apple’s driving force under Steve Jobs (definitely no longer under Tim Cook). https://youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o&t=1m54s > You’ve go to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it.

That works when you are starting a new company from scratch to solve a problem. When you're established and your boffins discover a new thing, of course you find places to use it. It's the expression problem with business: when you add a new customer experience you intersect it with all existing technology, and when you add a new technology you intersect it with all existing customer experience.

Isn't that why the big tech companies switched to acquiring up-and-coming scaleups?

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

Sharlin wrote: post #40
Xunjin wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had to search about and it's indeed a lot: "it is quite normal for a horse to poo (defecate) 8-12 times a day and produce anywhere from 13 to 23 kilograms of poo a day." Source: https://www.ranvet.com.au/horse-poo/

That's what you get when your primary source of nutrition is very calorie-poor and largely indigestible.

Yup. I’ve noticed that with my dog going to meat from kibble. Poop sizes reduced by 80%.
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