Supriyo Chaudhuri, Founder & CEO - e1133.
The current AI boom is not like the dotcom bubble of the late 90s, but rather akin to the onset of personal computing in the 60s, claim the AI evangelists. A fundamental technological shift is underway, not just a financial bubble. Many AI companies would perhaps fail, but game changing technologies and new ways of doing things would emerge out of it.
AI researchers have started resolving - not without the help of massive computing power and accumulated data - some of the key questions in the field. But there is much more to be done: Would the scaling laws hold, or a fundamentally new approach would emerge? How would we deal with edge cases? How would the AI agency really work out? Would there be a new way of training Robots?
Such questions indicate not a limitation, but how exciting the field is, and will remain in the foreseeable future. Just like personal computing in the 60s, the days of creation lie ahead. Notwithstanding the bo...
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