I’ve been keeping a blog over on github, writing daily updates of a deep dive into artificial intelligence. But who reads blogs on github? And although I am now a prolific Threads poster (or is it a Threader?), I felt like an actual blog would probably be a better mechanism for my blabbering into the Internet void.
So here we are… And this is my first post.
“The future happens slowly and then all at once.”
That’s a quote from Kevin Kelly. I first heard it sometime in early 2019 when I decided to take my first dive into AI, sparked by a Future Thinkers podcast where Kevin said something to the effect of it being possible to be able to be in the top 1% of AI experts if a person were to spend just a few hours messing around with it. So I did what any sane person would do upon hearing that and took the Coursera Machine Learning course. I then spent a good chunk of 2019 trying to really understand gradient descent and backpropagation, arguably never quite getting there.
Fast forward 5 years and I didn’t ever become a top 1% AI expert. Or maybe I did briefly but stopped due to life. Let’s pretend that’s the case.
Today, Kevin Kelly’s quote is ever more appropriate for the current techno-climate. Things are moving so fast that suggesting “it’s not possible to keep up” isn’t just a figure of speech. It is literally impossible to keep up. Trying to make sense of it all will actually explode braincells.
Braincells be damed. Let’s give it a shot.