Comment by kaycebasques
2 years ago
There's something ironic to me about the fact that building AI experiences still requires the first computing paradigm: batch processing. At least, my experience building a retrieval-augmented generation system requires a lot of batch processing.
Well, I shouldn't say "requires". I'm sure you can build them without batch processing. But batch processing definitely felt like the most natural and straightforward way to do it in my experience.
He's talking about human-computer interaction paradigms, not computing paradigms. He's not a general computing expert, he's a UI/UX expert.
"Batch computing" in this context refers to the era of punch cards, needing to wait for results overnight, and the difficulty of editing pre-existing programs -- and how all of that utterly dictated the style of interaction one had with computers.
Yep, I was aware of the difference before I made my original comment. There's still something ironic and interesting about it to me. Can't quite put my finger on it, though.
What sort of retrieval augmented generation system are you working on?