Les Carr

@lescarr.bsky.social

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60 year old nerdy guy with a job researching AI and the science of online life at the University of Southampton, and a side hustle in standup comedy.

"That said, often in machine learning, once something begins to work (even with clear flaws), in a few short years with scale (for example, of compute and data), better core models and better techniques, the capabilities of a system become surprising and can exceed human performance levels. In assessing the impact of a technology, it is, thus, important to keep in mind its probable future trajectory."
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