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Roberto Rigolin F Lopes
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Why did wealth and power become distributed as they now are, rather than in some other way?
“The best marketing is just telling the truth.”
― Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
― Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
“The truth, not widely understood until later, was that the deep-learning revolution was as much a revolution in hardware as software. It was the product of not one but two unpopular, cast-off, discredited, and cash-starved technologies whose ideal form could only be revealed in synthesis. Neural nets running on parallel computers: these tightly coupled technologies were the twin strands of DNA for a new and powerful organism, looking to consume all the data in the world.”
― The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang and Nvidia, the company shaping the future of AI
― The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang and Nvidia, the company shaping the future of AI
“Invention is a cumulative, compounding process. It feeds on itself.”
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
“The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite number of problems we can't solve because it's so difficult even to describe them. We are finite creations and can solve problems only if we can develop algorithms --finite procedures-- for reaching the correct answers. Most problems do not have solutions that are reducible to finite procedures. To assume the world is built so we can figure it out is absurd.”
― Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
― Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
“The coming wave is defined by two core technologies: artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology.”
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
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