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Alberto Romero's avatar

Sutton never denied the usefulness or value of human knowledge, he simply stated that more computation eventually overshadows it. I have to agree with Sutton there but I can't deny that human knowledge is still more than necessary to build all engineering systems--including AI, ML or GPTs. This essay isn't so much an attempt to minimize the value of human knowledge than my way to rethink our role in understanding the world

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Michel Schellekens's avatar

Hmm it sounds a little like EDA being driven by synthesis tools. In that sense we can never compete with computation and technology advances on the back of earlier tech. Maybe I am missing the point. Your article refers to twitter reactions. Is the shakeup due to the new applications bigger on the software development side than expected? Surely it is mostly supportive still rather than in the driver seat? Trying to understand the gist of the article.

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