Buzz Andersen on Mythryl: “An annoying hallmark of these kinds of articles is the lack of…”

An annoying hallmark of these kinds of articles is the lack of specificity about “AI.” Many of the examples they cite are conventional ML applications that can be run on edge computers (not data centers), but I suspect most readers wouldn’t appreciate the differences between those and huge LLMs.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.

nytimes.comOpinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. (Gift Article)All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.

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