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Their wordsThe rapid success of deep learning wasn't something that even most computer scientists anticipated, or at least they didn't anticipate it scaling to the point we've seen now.
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The business community is disturbingly unprepared for scenarios of rapid societal change.
Their wordsThe business community turns out to be disturbingly unprepared for a lot of scenarios involving rapid societal change, as seen during COVID.
Their wordsI still personally don't think we're going to have AI-directed robot factories in the desert anytime soon.
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