Nitesh Banta

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 30, 2016 by Nitesh Banta · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Dec 30, 2016 bullish
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Banta: Artificial narrow intelligence phase will continue for decades
“Well, so I think you already see instances where we're firmly in the ANI phase. You see lots of instances where things are self-sufficient. And I think this is a really exciting phase because there are lots of narrow things like driverless cars, as an example,…”
Nitesh Banta Dec 30, 2016 ▶ 21:53 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
Dec 30, 2016
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Banta Evaluated Over 1,000 Startups Annually as VC Investor
“When I was an investor, I was doing, I was meeting over a thousand companies each year, and I was able to meet with so many other individuals, so that you're just kind of learning from this firehose, and in this unnatural way, starting to learn about new ideas…”
Nitesh Banta Dec 30, 2016 ▶ 8:24 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
Dec 30, 2016 neutral
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Banta: Optimistic timeframe for AGI arrival is the 2040s or 2050s
“I'm not sure if I'm as smart as folks like Ray Kurzweil to give an exact date, but I would guess probably in like the, in the most optimistic case in the 20 forties or fifties.”
Nitesh Banta Dec 30, 2016 ▶ 23:17 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
Dec 30, 2016 bullish
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Banta: Artificial super intelligence will follow AGI within weeks to years
“So I feel like once you get to AGI and you're able to have machines that can operate 24 seven, sufficiently work together and do further research in the space, you'll probably get to an ASI in a much shorter period of time. Anything from weeks to months to yea…”
Nitesh Banta Dec 30, 2016 ▶ 22:56 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
Dec 30, 2016
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Banta: AGI development is bottlenecked by software complexity, not compute
“I actually don't think the limitation will be compute power, but the limitation will more be around the type of software that you need to build something as complex and dynamic as a person.”
Nitesh Banta Dec 30, 2016 ▶ 22:44 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
Dec 30, 2016
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Banta: Leaving venture capital becomes economically harder over time
“It gets harder with time. Economically, it gets harder. You get comfortable. You start to feel like you can actually do a good job in the venture industry”
Nitesh Banta Dec 30, 2016 ▶ 4:56 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
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