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0 pointsteruakohatu1y ago0 comments

> That's the standard tier of competence you expect from Ng. Academia is always close but no cigar.

Academics do research. You should not expect an academic paper to be turned into a business or production overnight.

The first neural network, the Mark 1 Perceptron, was invented during WWII for OCR. It took 70 years of non-commercial research to bring us to the very useful multimodal LLMs of today.

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mattmanser1y ago· 1 in thread

It's more they had to wait for processing power to catch up.

One of my bit older friends got an AI doctorate in the 00s, and would always lament a business would never bother reading his thesis, they'd just end up recreating what he did in a few weeks themselves.

It's easy to forget now that in the 90s//00s/10s AI research was mainly viewed as a waste of time. The recurring joke was that general AI was just 20 years away, and had been for the last few decades.

kilburn1y ago

> The recurring joke was that general AI was just 20 years away, and had been for the last few decades.

You seem to think that joke is out of date now. Many others don't ;)

RansomStark1y ago

> The first neural network, the Mark 1 Perceptron, was invented during WWII for OCR.

You're about a decade off, the Mark 1 Perceptron was created in 1958 [0]. The original paper (A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity) that introduced the idea however was written during WW2 (1943) [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_I_Perceptron

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logical_Calculus_of_the_Id...

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