Superhistory, Not Superintelligence - by Venkatesh Rao

Artificial Intelligence is really Artificial Time

This research note is part of the Mediocre Computing series An idea from the influential 2009 Google paper, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data, has shaped a lot of thinking, including my own, in the last decade: simple algorithms and more data beat complex algorithms and less data. This insight has shaped the evolution of not one but two technological revolutions -- Big Data and modern machine learning (deep learning). And it has led me to start thinking about AI in terms of time rather than intelligence. Specifically, modern AI is better understood as AT — “Artificial Time” that can…

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