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Pedro Domingos
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Pedro Domingos
@pmddomingos
Professor of computer science at UW and author of '2040' and 'The Master Algorithm'. Into machine learning, AI, and anything that makes me curious.
- Turns out all the misinformation experts were mainly misinforming themselves.
- There are risks in voting for Trump. With Kamala there’s the certainty that America will continue to go in the wrong direction. I’ll take the risks.
- 100 years from now, when all the vicissitudes of politics, social media, etc. in 2024 are long forgotten, people will still remember this as a milestone in humanity’s conquest of space.
- America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates.
- Yuval Noah Harari is bringing the moment when AI surpasses human intelligence closer and closer by writing stupider and stupider books.
- Upon returning to Google, Noam Shazeer fixed a bug in Gemini that alone was worth the $2.5B they paid for him.
- Your brain consumes 20 W of power. A single GPU consumes a kilowatt. A data center has tens of thousands of them, and is still not as powerful as your brain. Chew on that before you say AGI is imminent.
- Matrix multiplication is now a multi-trillion dollar business.
- In the last 30 years, America has produced seven trillion-dollar companies, while Europe has not produced a single one worth more than $100B.
- The first big tech company to be destroyed by AI will be Salesforce.
- Funny how wokes hate Elon Musk not because he censors left-wing tweets but because he doesn’t censor right-wing ones.
- The demand for non-woke education is skyrocketing. Who will meet it?
