Andrew Feldman
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I think there were two parts here.
I think there were two parts here.
Your first question was around sort of the rise of silicon in general.
Your first question was around sort of the rise of silicon in general.
And I think what AI did, and it's rarely sort of framed this way, but it allowed computers to address a class of problems that before AI, computers were bad at.
And I think what AI did, and it's rarely sort of framed this way, but it allowed computers to address a class of problems that before AI, computers were bad at.
We were bad at images for almost the entire history of compute.
We were bad at images for almost the entire history of compute.
We could store them and that's about it.
We could store them and that's about it.
We were bad at language.
We were bad at language.
We could store it, but that's about it.
We could store it, but that's about it.
We could transform numbers.
We could transform numbers.
We were magical with numbers.
We were magical with numbers.
And what AI did, starting in about 2015, 16, is it opened the door, the aperture, to say, maybe we could use computers on images.
And what AI did, starting in about 2015, 16, is it opened the door, the aperture, to say, maybe we could use computers on images.