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dr_kiszonka
9 months ago
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Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued ...
I don't know much about them, but how they decided to call themselves strikes me as ... unwise:
https://bookanalysis.com/dune/thinking-machines/
(They could have just as well picked Skynet.)
reasonableklout
9 months ago
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Pretty sure it's a reference to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation
, the famous supercomputer company from the 80s-90s where Richard Feynman briefly worked.
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(They could have just as well picked Skynet.)