The Rise and Fall of AI Systems

"I felt like that race is now getting quite out of control and we need to slow it down," he said. "We've gone from kind of feeding these systems, some tens of thousands of millions of images to feeding these systems most of the internet" He says there's been this very continuous progress in the field but as with any exponential, you get to the steep bit of the curve where things are changing weekly or daily rather than yearly.