machine learning
also referred to as: ml
21 statements across 15 episodes · 9 bullish · 5 bearish · 15 people on the record · first statement Oct 19, 2016 by James Cham · across every show →
Everything said about machine learning, oldest first
Oct 19, 2016 negative
James Cham: Doomsday and labor replacement debates miss real AI opportunities
“The danger, though, is that a lot of the conversation focuses on what I would call either Theological questions about the end of the world, which is interesting, but I think oftentimes not relevant, or questions around straightforward labor replacement, and I …”
Oct 19, 2016 bearish
Cham: Many corporate ML projects will fail due to poorly defined problems
“My own bet is that you'll see a lot of that happening over the next few years as the number of high profile projects inside corporations end up not yielding fruit in part because the problem was not defined well enough, or there was an assumption that If we ju…”
Oct 19, 2016 positive
Oct 19, 2016 neutral
James Cham: Machine learning should be viewed as smart statistics, not magic
“One way to think about machine learning is that it is basically Really, really smart statistics that, that ends, that end up constantly improving. And I think that as a frame for thinking about machine learning rather than machine learning as magic is, is, is …”
Jan 13, 2017
Nelson: Machine learning excels at repetitive, low-variance NLP tasks like scheduling
“So scheduling, luckily, is very much one of them. Repetitive, right? You want the variance in response to be low, ideally. So in our case, you know, you're talking about the same handful of variables on every occasion. You have the ability to kind of constrain…”
Jan 13, 2017
Apr 7, 2017 bullish
Shedletsky: Machine learning's biggest manufacturing opportunity is full-line feedback control
“I think what's most exciting is what we're working on, which is creating closed loop feedback control around the manufacturing line, not just one specific process, as is kind of done today, but the entire line, the entire supply chain, and I think that's a sup…”
Sep 18, 2017 positive
Sep 20, 2017 bearish
Core AI and machine learning in 2017 is mostly just nifty tricks
“So I really don't think it does, and I would also argue that what people consider a core AI ML today is a bunch of nifty tricks, and so you see lots of nifty demos, but in terms of actual production AI or ML actually out there, a lot of it's a little bit mecha…”
Sep 25, 2017 bullish
An infrastructure revolution will power the next wave of consumer platforms
“These things are very cyclical, and again, this is overly simplistic, but I think we're in the midst of a infrastructure revolution. Maybe it's around ML, maybe it's around cloud, maybe it's some combination of these things that are coming together, and there …”
Sep 6, 2019 bullish
Alex Wang: AI is underhyped and will rival the internet's impact
“So I actually have this belief that AI is either appropriately hyped or even maybe a bit under hyped in terms of its total impact. I think that it really is, if you were to think about technology in terms of these giant waves, I think there's the internet, the…”
Jan 10, 2022 negative
Feb 22, 2023 bullish
Feb 22, 2023
Feb 22, 2023
Jul 19, 2024 positive
Aug 19, 2024 negative
Aidan Gomez: Curriculum learning has failed in machine learning
“What's funny is that curriculum learning has actually failed in machine learning. We don't really do curriculum learning. It's just throw the hardest material and the easiest material all at the same time and let the model figure it out.”
Nov 3, 2025 bullish
Dec 31, 2025 neutral
Apr 14, 2026 bullish
Midha: AI infrastructure projects will continuously raise capital without end
“As long as the capabilities frontier keep moving and we want a healthy, independent ecosystem, we'll just keep Raising more capital. There's no end to that. I don't really, the day machine learning stops working as a systematic way to give humanity more capabi…”
Apr 27, 2026
AppLovin Scrapped Its Core Ad Tech Stack in 2022 to Rebuild Around AI
“Well, in 22 at the very bottom, we said, we're on an older version of machine learning. We're going to completely throw out our technology, rebuild it, and go to what is really cutting edge and current and in the field of recommendation systems.”