iamtrask on AI's Transformative Wave: 'We Are But Ants on the Hill'
iamtrask · x · 2026-11-11
OpenMined founder iamtrask posted a philosophical reflection — 'We are but ants on the hill... dust in the wind' — adding that, like Papyrus was irrelevant to the spread of books, individual actors matter little to a larger technological tide. Widely read as his take on the scale of the current AI transformation.
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