Dave Coplin
Think about how that happened. Before the industrial era, most people were compensated for what they produced - an artefact made, a crop harvested, a service rendered. The outcome was the measure. Then...
Dave Coplin
That’s Pablo Picasso, being interviewed about computers in mid-1960s Paris. The machines he was talking about bear almost no resemblance to what sits on your desk today - but his observation is more accurate...
Dave Coplin
Let me explain what I mean by that - because it’s not a metaphor. It’s a precise diagnosis of what went wrong, and when. The Industrial Revolution gave us something genuinely extraordinary: scale. For...
Dave Coplin
This is a story from a project I was loosely involved in during my time at Microsoft - long before generative AI, back when machine vision was the frontier. Microsoft Research were working with an oncologist...