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AI automation

5 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 30, 2016 by Nitesh Banta · across every show →

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Dec 30, 2016
Insight
Banta: Closing the final 10% of AI automation requires most effort
“To get to 80, 90, 95% automation. But the challenge is, like, most people don't care about, you know, if you could get a driverless car that could drive well 85% of the time, that's not particularly useful because that's still too dangerous or inconsistent exp…”
Nitesh Banta Dec 30, 2016 ▶ 12:38 20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
Aug 18, 2023
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Socher: AI automation scales directly with how digitized and data-rich a job is
“The more digital they are, the more data there is about a job the more that job is likely to go to be automated and improved massively in its efficiency.”
Richard Socher Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 49:21 Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 15, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
O'Driscoll: AI Automation Efficiency Will Advance Steadily at 5-10% Annually
“I think the scale advances steadily at five or 10% a year. And yes, you're going to need less people. You're going to get more efficient.”
Rory O'Driscoll May 15, 2025 ▶ 1:19:10 OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 3, 2025
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Joelle Pineau: AI automation succeeds when task results are precisely specified
“So in any case where we can be very precise about what a great result looks like, we'll be able to make that task automatic much more easily than tasks that are much more nuanced and have a lot of complexity.”
Joelle Pineau Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 18:21 Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Jason Lemkin: Base Zendesk AI achieves 20% ticket automation without custom training
“The base version of Zendesk, which you get with AI, it's about 20% automated. That's about as well as you can do without training.”
Jason Lemkin Nov 27, 2025 ▶ 51:15 Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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