Voice assistant and watt steam engine: what they have in common

1. Step 1. Voice assistant — uses — Large language model. Modern assistants run on language models.
2. Step 2. Large language model — uses — Data centre. They are trained in data centres.
3. Step 3. Data centre — has part — Air conditioner. Cooling.
4. Step 4. Air conditioner — uses — Heat pump. An air conditioner is a heat pump that carries heat out of the room.
5. Step 5. Heat pump — uses — Thermodynamics. A heat pump moves heat from cold to warm by spending work — by the laws of thermodynamics.
6. Step 6. Thermodynamics — was inspired by — Watt steam engine. Carnot wrote “Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire” trying to understand steam engines.

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