AI technology

11 statements across 11 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Jul 28, 2017 by Mark Ring · across every show →

Everything said about AI technology, oldest first

Jul 28, 2017 negative
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Mark Ring: AI cannot answer questions requiring world visualization
“Nearly any question that requires visualizing how the world works will go well beyond the ability of any AI technology in existence today.”
Mark Ring Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 1:00 Mark Ring
Feb 16, 2023 bearish
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Masad: Regulating AI before full deployment will cause major trouble
“And the problem now is that there are some people talking about AI takeoff being so fast that, you know, you need to react to it really quickly. And I think that'll get us into trouble. Actually, if you're gonna force politicians To understand this technology …”
Amjad Masad Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 1:01:47 The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
Mar 11, 2024 bearish
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Mulchandani: Deploying battle-ready AI in defense will take a long time
“So it's funny because like the excitement and hype about this technology versus us absorbing it and making it battle ready is a long, long distance. And so I don't, I'm hopefully, you know, portraying or representing that side of the equation, which it doesn't…”
Nand Mulchandani Mar 11, 2024 ▶ 22:41 Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
Apr 24, 2025 positive
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Bosworth: AI Will Simplify Every Digital Interface and Problem Space
“Every single interface that I interact with, every single problem space that I'm trying to solve are going to be made easier by virtue of this new technology.”
Andrew Bosworth Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 4:49 What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech
Jun 18, 2025 neutral
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Sinofsky: Apple will wait for AI tech to mature as an integrator
“So I think that they're back to like, we're not the first mover company. We're the first integrator company. And they're gonna just sit back and watch the technology Mature a little bit more.”
Steven Sinofsky Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 5:05 Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
Sep 24, 2025 bullish
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Levie: AI adoption speed exceeds prior tech shifts and changes daily routines
“The universal adoption of this as a consumer technology and then bleeding into prosumer is, it exceeds anything I've ever experienced, and I think it is, it will just fundamentally change people's sort of daily pattern.”
Aaron Levie Sep 24, 2025 ▶ 0:00 Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
Oct 22, 2025 bullish
Insight
Acharya: AI extends human emotion, unlike prior computing cycles extending intellect
“We've had 40 years of technology that extended our intellect and our minds. Right, but most of the human experience is actually emotional and it's subjective. Now we have a technology that extends our emotions, our subjective experience, and it can address tha…”
Anish Acharya Oct 22, 2025 ▶ 17:02 Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
Oct 23, 2025 positive
What-if
Andreessen: Current AI capabilities were considered impossible 5 to 10 years ago
“We're dealing with magic here that we, I think, probably all would have thought was impossible five years ago, or certainly 10 years ago.”
Marc Andreessen Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 34:11 Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
May 8, 2026 negative
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Horowitz: China was far ahead in military and government AI integration
“The thing that was true about the kind of old incorrect idea was that they were way ahead of us in integrating their AI technology with their government, you know, on a kind of military basis, on a bureaucracy basis, you know, in all facets.”
Ben Horowitz May 8, 2026 ▶ 7:02 Ben Horowitz on American Dynamism and the Future of AI | The a16z Show
May 29, 2026 neutral
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George: AI Diffusion Into Real Economy Is Less Than 5%
“Actual diffusion of this technology into the real economy is tiny. It's like less than five percent.”
David George May 29, 2026 ▶ 1:52 The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show
Sep 1, 2026 negative
Insight
Litt: Cheaper, lower-quality AI outputs risk displacing high-quality human work
“Like, you have a new technology that's doing something a little bit worse than was previously done, but much cheaper, and so you get a lot of, suddenly, a lot of, like, low-quality outputs that are displacing previous high-quality outputs.”
Daniel Litt Sep 1, 2026 ▶ 46:50 Can AI Learn Mathematical Intuition?
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