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December 8, 2020

The End of Starsky Robotics. In 2015, I got obsessed with the idea… | by Stefan Seltz-Axmacher | Starsky Robotics 10–4 Labs | Medium
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It isn’t actual artificial intelligence akin to C-3PO, it’s a sophisticated pattern-matching tool.

Rather than seeing exponential improvements in the quality of AI performance (a la Moore’s Law), we’re instead seeing exponential increases in the cost to improve AI systems — supervised ML seems to follow an S-Curve.

our heavy investment into safety didn’t translate for investors.

It took me way too long to realize that VCs would rather a $1b business with a 90% margin than a $5b business with a 50% margin, even if capital requirements and growth were the same.

Investors were impressed. It didn’t matter that that jump from “sometimes working” to statistically reliable was 10–1000x more work.
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