Blas Moros
@blas
Blas Moros
@blas
How did we get to the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity?
In three words: deep learning worked.
In 15 words: deep learning worked, got predictably better with scale, and we dedicated increasing resources to it.
That’s really it; humanity discovered an algorithm that could really, truly learn any distribution of data (or really, the underlying “rules” that produce any distribution of data). To a shocking degree of precision, the more compute and data available, the better it gets at helping people solve hard problems. I find that no matter how much time I spend thinking about this, I can never really internalize how consequential it is.
entrepreneurs are effectual thinkers - they start with the means and from there build a future, rather than starting with goals and iterating their way forwards. need both, but shaping the future rather than being shaped by it