Peter Norvig

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Depends on what it's trained on.

And we're at a point right now where the training of these big AI models is very expensive.

And so it's harder to keep them up to date.

With the internet search, if something new happens, some new news is there, it's pretty fast of getting that indexed and making it available.

But with the large AI models, it's just too expensive to update them instantaneously.

And so you miss out on the newest stuff.

But that will change over time and we'll come up with new ways of getting things out faster and faster.

When I first started at Google, there's sort of this transition.

When it started, we said, well, we're kind of like a library where you can go to look things up.

So it's okay that the library catalog only gets updated once a month.

And now that would seem crazy to say you're only getting information that's a month old.

But in the earliest days of Google, that was the case.

And then, you know, we went to daily and then hourly and then even hourly wasn't fast enough.

And you had to get faster and faster.

Yes.

So we did the first edition in 95, and we're up to the fourth edition, which we did a year or two ago.

And there definitely are changes.

And first of all, I think we did the book because we saw changes even back in 1995, where in the earlier days, in the 80s and the start of the 90s,

the sort of dominant form of AI was called expert system.

And what that meant was you build a system by going out and interviewing an expert, say an expert doctor,

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