Absolutely needed: to get high efficiency for this beast … as it gets better, we’ll become too dependent.
“all of this growth is for a new technology that’s still finding its footing, and in many applications—education, medical advice, legal analysis—might be the wrong tool for the job,”
Pretty sure “AI” didn’t exist in the 60s/70s either.
Yes, it did. Most of the basic research came from there. The first section of the book “Hackers” by Steven Levy is a good intro.