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p-e-wlast Thursday at 12:56 AM2 repliesview on HN

The prediction that a new technology that is being heavily researched plateaus after just 5 years of development is certainly a daring one. I can’t think of an example from history where that happened.


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gitremotelast Thursday at 3:39 AM

Neural network research and development existed since the 1980s at least, so at least 40 years. One of the bottlenecks before was not enough compute.

OccamsMirrorlast Thursday at 4:54 AM

Perhaps the fact that you think this field is only 5 years old means you're probably not enough of an authority to comment confidently on it?

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