Morfternight #94: Algorithms & Breakthroughs
Hello! I am Paolo Belcastro. You are reading this because you subscribed to Morfternight. Morfternight #94: Algorithms & BreakthroughsThe one with a photo of a bird that a computer can recognize.👇 tl;drToday, we have a photo of a bird and a video explaining (among other things) how a computer recognizes a bird on an image. Also, Steve Jobs made 40 years ago a point that is crucial today. 🤩 Welcome to the 199 new Morfternighters who joined us this week. 👋 Good Morfternight!Greetings from Vienna! Two issues of Morfternight in a row from home; here’s something that hasn’t happened in a while. I hope you are all doing well, and as a reminder, you can tell me about it by replying to this email. I read all emails and reply. You can also reply to this email to share feedback with me. Do you like Morfternight? What would you like to be different, if anything? 📷 Photo(s) of the weekRaven, Vienna — More Photos from BerlinVienna has a large bird population, from pigeons to ducks, from seagulls to swans, but ravens and crows are the most beautiful and wisest of all. I hadn’t even noticed this one on a car just next to me, but I heard a clicking sound as it moved on its windshield. 🗺️ A few places to visit
This is an excerpt from Write Simply, a short essay by Paul Graham. Great advice on writing to be understood. Ask vs guess culture is an excellent essay by Jean Hsu about a cultural but also generational gap that we probably all have encountered at home and work. I truly enjoyed this Geoffrey Hinton interview, although I have to say, the “godfather” moniker is becoming a bit annoying. The conversation touches on multiple aspects of AI, from a very understandable explanation of backpropagation algorithms at play in neural networks to the potential dangers of AI and some advice to future researchers:
☎️ “It was a breakthrough because people already knew how to use it.”ChatGPT recently became the app with the fastest adoption ever, with 100 million users over the first months after its launch. In this 1984 video, Steve Jobs compares the introduction of the Macintosh graphic user interface and the mouse to that of the telephone a century earlier. In both cases, a new technology saw mass adoption and disrupted the incumbent one quickly “because people already knew how to use it.” I said it before, this is the real revolution of 2023. Not a sentient machine, but just one that, finally, after all these years, people already know how to use. The video is long, but I linked to the precise spot where he explains this analogy, and that bit is about two minutes long. If you don’t feel like watching it, and prefer to read, here’s the transcript.
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