Rapid advancement in complexity

Our exploded view diagram combines and visualizes three central, extractive processes that are required to run a large-scale artificial intelligence system: material resources, human labor, and data.1


tags: #memex3 links:
- broader terms (BT): Emergence - narrower terms (NT):
- related terms (RT): Chapter 5 Wiring the world (page 74) - used for (UF) or aliases:
connected ideas:
MOC: @crawfordAnatomyAI source


It is crazy to see how much work and materials goes into building an Alexa when not even a century ago telegraphs were considered super advanced. Looking at what it takes to build, it makes the telegraph seem rudimentary.