Rowan Gontier

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I'm thinking of launching a line of alarm clocks that wake you up with the sounds of a microwave and a chopping board.

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If you printed English Wikipedia as physical books, it would take roughly 4,000–7,500 large volumes and about 75–150 metres of shelf space.

Basically: not an entire library, but definitely a serious library aisle. 📚

This is an AI estimate.

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@DavidSacks Would be interested to know total remuneration stats vs little gig work.

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@mcuban It feels to me that if one believes that value is in unique data, the "model" is merely a tool that facilitates the data access. Discussions about specialised models are to me rooted in a disdain of frontier AI firms. I say: use a siloed proven model & connect it to private data.

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@sama Nice if Codex used the best model for higher level tasks, mid tier models for average tasks, and light weight models for easy jobs? AI is smart enough now to make that judgement call, and even update the model type during a task based on a critic's review of progress/results.

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@mcuban Expert humans in mature domains don't agree on some topics. "Same" answer is not realistic to expect from AI, nor humans. People are using AI, and get value from it. They are not spaced out by the hype. It is working for them. And it will only get better.

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@GaryMarcus @Grady_Booch That problem exists with human development. People come and go.

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@GaryMarcus Radiologist now a glorified help desk?

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@GaryMarcus Yeah, people still ride horses.

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@GaryMarcus Any evidence on hand-coding reversion, and specifics on the extent?

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@ylecun @ben_j_todd What most people mean by AGI, is that office work can be done by machines. Of course the true definition is more in the direction of doing any task that humans can do. Great LLMs with tool calls has proven good for office work. Plumbers will smile until physics models solved.

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@ylecun @rohanpaul_ai It feels like nobody is the expert now in Labor market disruption in regard to AI. Amateurs built the Ark, experts built the Titanic. It is hypocrisy to tell other people who to listen to- it is the same as making a prediction, delegating to who you don't disagree with.

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@PGATOUR to address slow play, why not order players by average playing speed, to some extent? Faster players first. Within those buckets, order by score- players with better scores are paired up.

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@EvanLuthra It feels like these careers might buy you 5 years, if you want to work. Beyond that, work not necessary?

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Learning to play the guitar.
Now press harder.

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@alexwtlf Used to be $10,000/ month to look at stack overflow, do copy/paste of boilerplate, wait for builds to complete, and sit in meetings. The value was in choices about architecture, clean code, giving feedback to designers/BAs, and making tradeoffs of quality/time/cost. Still is.

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@fchollet When 3d design packages are hooked up to text editors, and AI agents, that will change exponentially fast also.

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@_adityaa21 Projecting to 2027, using 2025 tech as the benchmark? By 2027, AI will probably do a big chunk of the understanding part.

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@theo 90% of code was true even 3 years ago, by character input. The amount of prompt refinement needed has reduced.

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@haider1 When scientists/engineers focus more on semantics and philosophy than useful ideas/products, they are no longer moving technology forward.