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Johnathan Reid's avatar

Not just tech. It takes a minimum of a decade for medical best practices to permeate through a country's healthcare system, even when the evidence is clear and funding isn't an issue.

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Roger Bohn's avatar

Yes! Everyone wants “plug compatible Ai”, where they just plug in AI module in place of an old system. But with very few exceptions, that’s not how it works!

Many other parts of a production system have to be changed, e.g. training, career paths. In the long run, entire industry structures will change to get the maximum benefit from new capabilities.

Chip design has used “computer intelligence” for decades. The founders of Intel physical drew the layout of their first chips on transparent sheets that the lithography masks. (Analogous to photo negatives - for those who remember them.) Over decades, more and more of chip design was handled by AI.

One of the big revolutions in electronics industry was the foundry/design organization of companies. Qualcomm is the third largest chip company in the world (or was last time I looked), but it physically makes zero of its chips. They are all outsourced to specialists like TSMC.

The same reorganizations will happen due to what we now call AI. But we can’t predict what, where, or when. Meanwhile, the technical capability of the core algorithms will be continually advancing.

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