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Roberto Rigolin F Lopes
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There is also a rhythm and a pattern between the phenomena of nature which is not apparent to the eye, but only to the eye of analysis; and it is these rhythms and patterns which we call Physical Laws.
“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 irony of general-purpose technologies is that, before long, they become invisible and we take them for granted. Language, agriculture, writing—each was a general-purpose technology at the center of an early wave. These three waves formed the foundation of civilization as we know it. Now we take them for granted.”
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
“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
“Hassabis would later say that games were like a gym for the mind and chess was the ultimate workout.”
― Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
― Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
“The basic premise of transhumanism is that the human race is currently second-rate. With the right scientific discoveries and technology, we might one day evolve beyond our physical and mental limits into a new, more intelligent species. We’ll be smarter and more creative, and we’ll live longer. We might even manage to meld our minds with computers and explore the galaxy.”
― Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
― Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
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