Friday, January 24, 2025

AI meets the curse of the mainframe

 


Central AI has flared up and died.  I like that it can write Python programs for me, but they give me more trouble than mucking about on my own.  This is a classic 'central control' scaling problem.  It's like having one sewer plant in the centre of a circular town, and allowing endless development.  The load depends on the square of the radius, and the plant can only increase linearly.  It is soon hopeless.

We had the same for central mainframes.  Square vs. linear.  Never ends well, and the hopeless tech giants forgot all this for AI.  Let's have a nuclear plant!  Nope.

AI will break up into tiny pieces, like my dreams for AI-mini-me, that can tell endless stories about physics.  So neat.


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