Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over AI Models
Hey there, little explorer! 👋 Imagine you have a super-duper, brand-new toy car engine, super fast and shiny! 🏎️💨
Grown-ups were super excited about these new engines, like the fastest ones ever! But guess what? A smart grown-up talked to lots of other grown-ups, and they told him a secret.
The secret is: it's not just about having the fastest engine! If you have a super engine but no wheels, no steering wheel, and no comfy seat, you can't drive the car, right? 🤷♀️
So, the grown-ups are learning that it's not just about the newest brain for the computer, but how to make it work and do cool things! It's like building the whole car, not just getting the engine. Vroom vroom! 🚗✨
Photo by Andrey Matveev on Unsplash If you read the news about the big NVIDIA tech event few weeks ago, you might think the future is all about faster computer chips. The tech world was going crazy over them. But I actually ignored the big speeches. Instead, I hung out in the hallways and grabbed coffee with the people actually trying to use this stuff. As a Cloud & AI advisor, I talked to engineers, founders, and managers. I’m going to let you in on a secret. The real story had almost nothing to do with new hardware. Everyone is quietly freaking out because we forgot how to actually run these things. We bought the engines but forgot to build the car. Here are four things I learned from the people doing the actual work. 1. Nobody cares which model you use anymore For the last few years, it
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