Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

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206. On Congressional Hearings On Artificial Intelligence (May 2023)

Follow the science…fiction?

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Steven Sinofsky
May 16, 2023

In the AI hearings a panelist suggested the best approach to regulation would be to regulate based on compute or model size. This seems to be the most a-technical and short-sighted way to regulate. 1/8

2/ imagine it is the early 1970s and fear of “databanks” (SQL) sweeps across the industrialized world. In 1980 disk drives held 30MB. Imagine the downstre…

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