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VanDevender: Autonomous trucks will improve delivery but erode rural wealth distribution
“So if you replace the trucks with self-driving trucks, you end up with a much better goods distribution system, which is positive, but the trucking system is a much worse wealth distribution system.”
VanDevender: Deep learning is just linear algebra at industrial scale
“At the core of it is just this matrix multiplication operations. It's, you know, you're just sort of doing linear algebra at industrial scale. We haven't gotten to the point for most of these things or most of the things that call themselves AI, where you're r…”
VanDevender: Most 'big data' datasets are only megabytes or gigabytes
“Most of the things that are sort of big data are actually not that big. You know, you would like to, you'd like to think of these petabytes and exabytes floating around there and coming up with really amazing insights that could never have been seen. But a lot…”
VanDevender: VR will repeat the mistaken belief that physical location doesn't matter
“I think we're sort of poised to make that same mistake again with virtual reality.”
VanDevender: Robot maintenance jobs will pay more but employ fewer people
“There will be those, some of those jobs created and they will be better jobs than trucker jobs. Those people will be more productive. They'll get paid more. They won't be on the road all the time. They'll be home for dinner with their kids. So it'll be a bette…”
VanDevender: Atomic electron microscopes require quantum computing techniques
“So we built single atom resolution electron microscopes, which turns out to be very similar to building quantum computers. And that you're manipulating the quantum states of individual atoms, but use that for biotechnology purposes.”