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Yes believe it or not in the US you can also buy things from fabricators in Shenzhen.
If time is of the essence, or rapid prototyping is needed, the shipping hurdle is a real problem. Going down the street for the goods vs having them go across the globe is quite a difference…
Garbage in. Garbage out. I can't believe how many people on this site worship talentless managers.
Say what you want about their later years, but Dean and Ghemawat deserve their title of engineer.
Garbage in. Garbage out. I can't believe how many people on this site worship talentless managers.
Jeff Dean invented MapReduce and Bigtable. Say what you want about their later years, but Dean and Ghemawat deserve their title of engineer.
Gemini (stolen technology they had nothing to do with) says:
Jeff and Sanjay led the development, but they collaborated with a small team of engineers to build and refine the database.
So, who were the engineers who actually built it? It lists "Fay Chang, Howard Gobioff, Mike Burrows, Wilson Hsieh, Deborah Wallach" but Idk if it's accurate.
I know that these talentless managers didn't do anything, that's for sure
The site itself is really leaning into the “made with Fable” aesthetic
Why are people so sour about this?? I can read the site easily, its clear, performs well on mobile, what else do you want? Why is so offensive to people that models trained on tailwind or whatever?
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I love this question. If history is a guide, some version of that is what will happen (employment doesn't seem to go down, despite technological progress and population + economic growth). I suspect the root cause is that it's harder and scarier to imagine good outcomes. It exposes us to disappointment, and when you do it publicly, it looks "crazy". Another explanation is that there's no direct consumer for "more." I…
I know some scientists and there's barely enough demand for them as it is
From my perspective, we are desperately short of scientists, researchers and engineers, but we are using an outdated economic model to leverage their findings. LLM’s are a large part of Bush’s Memex and Jobs’ bicycle for the mind visions for intelligence amplification, and in some ways exceed them. I hope we trampoline from how we currently use basic seeking efforts for knowledge.
Jeff Dean: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sdcsQb4AAAAJ
Sanjay Ghemawat: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0KF6ZC8AAAAJ
Quoc Le: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vfT6-XIAAAAJ
Oriol Vinyals: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=NkzyCvUAAAAJ
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They make many bold promises, but their core goal is neatly encapsulated on the website: "Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today." This is the same goal as every other AI company out there. Automate away the human employees and let a small number of "people" (no…
I don’t understand why all of these companies need to frame it like this. Why not a large amount of people doing an even larger amount of science?
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Why not just add 'mind control' while you're at it. Only death stops stagnation in the end. Without death, especially if death can be avoided by the rich and powerful but not the poor, life will get much, much worse for the average person (until only the rich and their automated capital remain I suppose, in which scenario they will simply turn on each other).
This is the classic "without death, authoritarian depots will be in power forever". But it's actually the wrong way around. Hope that the despot will soon die saps peoples' will to do the difficult and dangerous job of removing them. Take away that hope and they are forced to find the courage.
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At a population level, humans getting rid of their off switch is about as good of a thing as your own pancreas cells getting rid of theirs.
I know you're gesturing emphatically at some kind of analogy to cancer, but malignant cancer requires replication not immortality.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to count out how many generations you need to run this until it's 'oops, all self-replicating individuals with broken off switches.'