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Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (computerhistory.org)
3 points by rbanffy 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



He was obsessed with IBM remaining the world leader in everything they did, changing the org structure and over hiring for research with this aim.

This time feels different, you can't corner the resource of best AI engineers as the years go on, so how do you rent seek intelligence when any smart rich person can birth it and give it away.


A bit of what must be going inside companies training large language models right now.




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