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Expand Up @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ the emergence of a new non-biological form of intelligent life.

And yet, it doesn't feel like it.

There's no cinematic score, no blinking AGI warning light. Just Slack threads, ,
There's no cinematic score, no blinking AGI warning light. Just Slack threads,
blog posts, and conference panels. It reminds me of witnessing childbirth -
profoundly transformative, with some shocking moments, but also lots of mundane
time waiting around.
Expand All @@ -30,14 +30,15 @@ misunderstanding of what AI has become.
Machine learning - now rightly called AI - is a deeply general-purpose field.
The same core techniques behind Midjourney and GPT share research lineage, and
often architecture. This isn't a stack of isolated tricks. It's one evolving
system architecture applied across language, vision, simulation, reasoning, and
system architecture applied across language, vision, reasoning, robotics, and
more.

These systems are built on a mountain of science: decades of research, countless
failed experiments, and thousands of contributors.
([I've even contributed a few failures myself.](https://tinyclouds.org/residency))
And we haven't found the limits yet - these models can already simulate physical
phenomena, generate high-definition video, and write deeply technical software.
And we haven't found the limits yet - these models can already translate
language, write poetry, generate high-definition video, and write deeply
technical software, and so much more.

Mobile technology was transformative. But general-purpose synthetic intelligence
is something else entirely.
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