It's the Beginning of the End of the Computer Industry | John Hennessy | Google Zeitgeist

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[prescod]

I listened to the whole hour waiting for the moment where he would explain why we are "beginning the end of the computer industry". Moore's law ending? That's all?

[hansvetter]

I'm myself an engineer (EE). I follow ideas & concepts of AI since 1984 ... the start of my engineering career ...
My understanding of AI is so far that it's still just (science?) fiction. So here is my Turing-Test for any new AI "solution" - just 3 fundamental questions:
1) What has been "learnt"? ... by machines ...
2) What has been "understood"? ... by machines ...
3) What can and has been "explained"? ... by machines ...
... without any synthesized "explanation" all claims of and about AI stays just plain fiction! Even always new fancy terms like "neural networks", "inferencing engines" and "Tensor-Processing-Unit" implying "TeraFlops" cannot change it even a bit ... it's just a big fuss & hype around AI ... it just makes me smile ...
... and are finally just trials of justification for all the vast mountains of tax payers money wasted on AI ... ;-)

[webguyz]

Seems he is unaware that mobile phone processors have not slowed, unlike laptops/desktops, because well... demand for phones is still increasing unlike desktops.

[yaxiongzhao]

Anyone think the cat is pretty creepy?...

[clifftrewin]

this guy is not the sharpest knife in the drawer

[ResidualSelfImage]

There no end of the computer industry. Moore's Law is not a growth limiter. Why? Because Computers are only a means to an end and was never the final product. Software, AI ML, telephoney, Quantum computing, AR VR, and the Internet are still evolving ... rather this fellow isn't in the know ... and more or less the world has passed the speaker by. High tech is relentlessly unstable ... Are there trends in the computer industry... yes but that is a subject for another youtuber or commenter.

[chulhogan]

11:34 and this is way tesla will win the self driving race... Have a nice day :-)