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Opinion
Lessin: The internet has failed as an information platform
“I personally believe the internet has mostly failed in its mission to become an information platform. It's a great content platform. It's super engaging, but it doesn't inform the way I expect it to. I'm super disappointed in Wikipedia.”
Sam Lessin May 25, 2016 ▶ 15:18 20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
Prediction Not checkable as stated
LeCun: Users will talk to AI assistants instead of searching Google or Wikipedia
“So people are probably going to use this almost exclusively in the future for their interaction with the digital world. You're not gonna go to Google or Wikipedia. You're just gonna talk to your assistant.”
Yann LeCun Nov 24, 2023 ▶ 20:59 The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2028
LeCun: AI assistants will replace Google and Wikipedia for digital navigation
“People are probably going to use this almost exclusively in the future for their interaction with the digital world. You know, you're not going to go to Google or Wikipedia. You're just going to talk to your assistant.”
Yann LeCun May 15, 2023 ▶ 20:06 Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gomez: 2017 Language Models Generated Wikipedia Pages as Convincing as Humans
“That happened, like, in 2017, shortly after we submitted the paper. We started training language models on Wikipedia and we sampled from those models, and it could write Wikipedia pages as convincing as a human page.”
Aidan Gomez Aug 19, 2024 ▶ 22:15 Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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