views, comments.

The Worlds I See

Metadata

Highlights

Although it had taken more than a half century for the necessary preconditions to align—historic milestones in the evolution of algorithms, large-scale data, and raw computing power, all converging at the dawn of the 2010s—it took less than a half decade for the capabilities they unleashed to change the world. — location: 50


for the committee members who would soon occupy them. — location: 120


appropriately stately interior, with windows extending from floor to ceiling — location: 118


and I repeated it in my thoughts like a mantra. It matters what motivates the development of AI, in both science and industry, and I believe that motivation must explicitly center on human benefit. I tried to put everything — location: 128