Mens et Manus - Sri Kosuri
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What AI is changing inside Octant
Imagine giving MIT’s founders in the 1860s unmetered intelligence, but only the knowledge available in their time. Could they have said, “Claude, build a transistor. Make no mistakes”? I doubt it. Not because the intelligence would be weak, but because the needs had yet to emerge, the questions had yet to be asked, and the methods had yet to be invented. Even in 1945, with far better theory in hand, the road wasn’t linear. Bell Labs’ early attempts at a solid-state amplifier failed. Figuring out why led researchers to study electrical charges at the surface of the crystal, and that work…
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