Modularity is an excellent way of attacking complex problems. We can all play with algorithms that can carry on realistic conversations and create synthetic 3D movies, because people worked on problems like making transistors the size of 10 atoms, figuring out how processors can predict branches with 99% accuracy, giving neural nets self-attention, deploying inexpensive and ridiculously fast networks all over the planet, and a lot of other stuff.
For many of us, curing cancer may someday become more important than almost anything else a computer can help us to do. It's just there are so many building blocks to solving truly complex problems; we must respect all that.
graphviz|1 year ago
For many of us, curing cancer may someday become more important than almost anything else a computer can help us to do. It's just there are so many building blocks to solving truly complex problems; we must respect all that.