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qeternity on June 30, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI

No, it's not. Scaling did work. The internet gives us (effectively) unlimited storage.

We just scaled in a slightly different way.

caddemon on June 30, 2024 [–]

The music part is just scaling in a different way, but that's not the reason the iPhone is so successful. The leap from iPod to iPhone was definitely not just scaling.

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