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law-of-accelerating-returns
The concept that technological progress accelerates via feedback loops where improvements enable further rapid advancements.
1 chapter across 1 book
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma (2023)Mustafa Suleyman; Michael Bhaskar
chapter 2 is essentially a vast, unfolding process in which our species has
Chapter 2 traces humanity's progressive mastery over atoms, bits, and genes, culminating in a transformative technological wave driven by artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. It highlights the evolution from material-based technologies to information-centric innovations and the accelerating, interconnected growth of multiple advanced technologies. The chapter also details the breakthrough of deep learning in AI, exemplified by AlexNet, which revolutionized computer vision and catalyzed widespread real-world applications.