Shifting to an AI mindset - by Ravi Mehta - Ravi on Product

One of my purest pleasures is hiking the hills above Los Angeles. On my typical route, I get 360 degree views encompassing downtown LA, the sweeping coastline, and the low slung mountains surrounding LA county. Remarkably, this view doesn't look so different than it did 75 years ago — the mid-century when people imagined a space-aged future. There are no flying cars, no skyscrapers reaching into the atmosphere, and no Blade Runner-esque urban sprawl. Thanks for reading Ravi on Product! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Yet, things have changed profoundly. Almost all of those changes are in the area of information technology. In bits, not atoms. These changes have happened in three stages, and now we are in the fourth. About ten years ago, an xkcd comic came out: That comic was true for decades, but no more. Today, detecting a bird in a photo wouldn’t take more than few hours either. So what changed? In the 1940’s, the invention of the transistor ushered in an

One of my purest pleasures is hiking the hills above Los Angeles. On my typical route, I get 360 degree views encompassing downtown LA, the sweeping coastline, and the low slung mountains surrounding LA county. Remarkably, this view doesn't look so different than it did 75 years ago — the mid-century when people imagined a space-aged future. There are no flying cars, no skyscrapers reaching into the atmosphere, and no Blade Runner-esque urban sprawl. Thanks for reading Ravi on Product! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Yet, things have changed profoundly. Almost all