Template:M intro technology pattern matching

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I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespeare ... but really I shouldn’t need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning. About half of the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse than that. When Shakespeare wrote, almost all of Europeans were busy farming, and very few people attended university; few people were even literate—probably as low as about ten million people. By contrast, there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564?

—Chauncey Gardiner’s “sophomore college blog”, quoted in Michael Lewis’ Going Infinite

Pattern matching is checking a given set of data for the presence of the constituents of a given pattern. This is the principle behind large language models that drive generative AI. Pattern matching involves doing a huge number of not especially sophisticated operations as quickly as possible over a huge amount of data.

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