[HN Gopher] The Year in Computer Science
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       The Year in Computer Science
        
       Author : isaacfrond
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2023-12-21 08:48 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.quantamagazine.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org)
        
       | FrustratedMonky wrote:
       | Current LLM's, Combined with Symbolic AI. Could that be the next
       | jump.
        
         | cmrdporcupine wrote:
         | That's my personal hunch, too. Not so much for making
         | "intelligence" ala Hal 9000, but for coordination / planning /
         | structuring of what was acquired using probabilistic methods.
         | 
         | For, like, actual _practical_ applications ... rather than
         | pretending to be a person.
         | 
         | Had a person associated with a VC basically tell me that the VC
         | community would fund nothing to do with symbolic, though. Not
         | the current trend sauce.
        
       | real0mar wrote:
       | I love the art in quanta magazine
        
         | datameta wrote:
         | Me too. I've been trying to find the piece of art with the
         | earth's kingdoms of life surrounding a macro scale - it used to
         | be my wallpaper but I lost track of it. I'd put some of those
         | artists' works on my wall.
        
       | datadrivenangel wrote:
       | "In August, a computer scientist developed an even faster
       | variation of Shor's algorithm, the first significant improvement
       | since its invention. "I would have thought that any algorithm
       | that worked with this basic outline would be doomed," Shor said.
       | "But I was wrong.""
       | 
       | You have to appreciate the humility.
        
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