Text Is the Universal Interface - Scale
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Roon guest-authors a post on large language models and the future of computing.
Text became the main way humans commanded computers. | Scale AI Scale partners with Mayo Clinic to develop reliable AI for healthcare Read the Full Story ← Blog Research Text Is the Universal Interface By Roon · September 8, 2022 · 13 min read Copy Link “This is the Unix philosophy: write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.” — Douglas McIlroy Computer software came to maturity in the late 1960s. While most programs to date had been written monolithically, mostly from scratch,
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