Meredith Whittaker
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Yeah. To answer this question, I'm going to be like drawing on a lot of the research and the historical work, kind of the work I've done since then. Because when this dawned in my life, like when it started being a thing, I was very I had basically that same question. Like, what is this stuff? Why is it? Why is it kind of at Google? You would see a shift toward a new paradigm or a new trend here.
by the incentives that were structured into the OKRs, the quarterly goals, that kind of, you know, there'd be all these training modules that would pop up and it's like, make your software engineer into an AI developer, you know, and you'd be like, there's an incentive here.
by the incentives that were structured into the OKRs, the quarterly goals, that kind of, you know, there'd be all these training modules that would pop up and it's like, make your software engineer into an AI developer, you know, and you'd be like, there's an incentive here.
by the incentives that were structured into the OKRs, the quarterly goals, that kind of, you know, there'd be all these training modules that would pop up and it's like, make your software engineer into an AI developer, you know, and you'd be like, there's an incentive here.
Well, they were, that was deep mind era. Okay, okay, good. Sorry. I think they were, they were ahead. It was them and Meta for a long time.
Well, they were, that was deep mind era. Okay, okay, good. Sorry. I think they were, they were ahead. It was them and Meta for a long time.
Well, they were, that was deep mind era. Okay, okay, good. Sorry. I think they were, they were ahead. It was them and Meta for a long time.
No, but they're chaotic. It's a kind of court in decline so that, you know, actually where the actually the business model part has never been their strong suit beyond search to be real, you know, like cloud is like the best technology presented confusingly with 18 versions, all deprecated, right? Like that's, but this, the, the AI stuff was, so if you look at the,
No, but they're chaotic. It's a kind of court in decline so that, you know, actually where the actually the business model part has never been their strong suit beyond search to be real, you know, like cloud is like the best technology presented confusingly with 18 versions, all deprecated, right? Like that's, but this, the, the AI stuff was, so if you look at the,
No, but they're chaotic. It's a kind of court in decline so that, you know, actually where the actually the business model part has never been their strong suit beyond search to be real, you know, like cloud is like the best technology presented confusingly with 18 versions, all deprecated, right? Like that's, but this, the, the AI stuff was, so if you look at the,
If you look at the sort of recent history, which is something I've spent a lot of time on, I spend a lot of time on because I think that gives us a really different picture than the Elon Musk narrative or the kind of popular narrative. There's a very important paper that was published in 2012 that introduced the AlexNet algorithm. And this was Jeff Hinton and his students.
If you look at the sort of recent history, which is something I've spent a lot of time on, I spend a lot of time on because I think that gives us a really different picture than the Elon Musk narrative or the kind of popular narrative. There's a very important paper that was published in 2012 that introduced the AlexNet algorithm. And this was Jeff Hinton and his students.
If you look at the sort of recent history, which is something I've spent a lot of time on, I spend a lot of time on because I think that gives us a really different picture than the Elon Musk narrative or the kind of popular narrative. There's a very important paper that was published in 2012 that introduced the AlexNet algorithm. And this was Jeff Hinton and his students.
Well, if you claim that your technology is everything, then you can get a prize in anything.
Well, if you claim that your technology is everything, then you can get a prize in anything.
Well, if you claim that your technology is everything, then you can get a prize in anything.
And it was Ilya Stutskever and then Alex, and I'm sorry, Alex, I am not grabbing your last name from the ether right now, but nonetheless, this was a paper that kind of
And it was Ilya Stutskever and then Alex, and I'm sorry, Alex, I am not grabbing your last name from the ether right now, but nonetheless, this was a paper that kind of
And it was Ilya Stutskever and then Alex, and I'm sorry, Alex, I am not grabbing your last name from the ether right now, but nonetheless, this was a paper that kind of
pulled together key ingredients that became the foundation of the ai ai boom now so this is deep learning algorithms which is the paradigm we're still in it doesn't matter you know there's architectural sort of rejiggering but nonetheless it's deep learning um huge amounts of data so the what i've called the derivatives of this surveillance business model he found all the cats on youtube