Peter Norvig
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Absolutely.
And I think it's a combination.
So I think AI is a big part of it.
I think the Internet and access to data was part of it.
The cloud computing was a big part of it.
Right.
So it used to be, you know, if you were a software engineer, the hardest part was raising money because you had to buy a lot of computers just to get started.
Now, all you need is a laptop and a Starbucks card, and you can sit there and start going and then rent out the cloud computing resources as you need them and pay as you go.
And so I think AI will have a similar type of effect.
You can now start doing things much more quickly.
You can prototype something and go to a release product much faster.
And it'll also make it more widely available.
So I live in Silicon Valley, so I see all these notices going around of saying, looking for a technical co-founder.
So there's lots of people that say, well, I have an idea, but I'm not enough of a programmer to do it.
So I need somebody else to help me do it.
I think in the future, a lot of those people will be able to do it themselves.
So I had a great example of a friend who's a biologist, and he said, you know, I'm not a programmer.
I can pull some data out of a spreadsheet and make a chart, but I can't do much more than that.
But I study bird migrations, and I always wanted to have like this interactive map of where the birds are going and play with that.
And he said, and I knew a real programmer could do it, but it was way beyond me.