Neil Gershenfeld
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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The big thing that's not yet on horizons is embodied AI, molecular intelligence.
So to step back to this AI story, there was...
and that was gonna change everything.
Then there were expert systems.
There was then the first phase of the neural network systems.
There'd been about five of these.
In each case on the slope up, it's gonna change everything.
Each case what happens is on the slope down,
we sort of move the goalposts and it becomes sort of irrelevant.
So a good example is going up, computer chess was gonna change everything.
Once computers could play chess, that fundamentally changes the world.
Now on the downside, computers play chess.
Winning at chess is no longer seen as a unique human thing, but people still play chess.
This new phase is going to take a new chunk of things that we thought computers couldn't do, now computers will be able to do.
They have roughly our brain capacity.
But we'll keep thinking as well as computers.
And as I described, while we've been going through these five boom busts, if you just look at the numbers of ops per second, bits storage, bits of IO, that's the more interesting one.
That's been steady.
And that's what finally caught up to people.
But as we've talked about a couple of times, there's eight orders of magnitude to go
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