AlphaGo

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 18, 2022 by Benedict Evans · said 14 times in 4 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Jul 18, 2022 neutral
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Evans: AI struggles with novel writing because literature lacks objective scoring metrics
“Problems that are where you can tell the computer the rules, and you can give it a score so it knows whether it's doing well, which is what you got with AlphaGo. It would be very difficult to do that writing a novel, because there's no set of rules, and there'…”
Benedict Evans Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 22:32 Remember AI?
Oct 19, 2022 neutral
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Evans: Unlike AlphaGo, generative creative AI lacks an inherent feedback loop
“And with AlphaGo, the scoring, because of the scoring inherent to Go, AlphaGo could generate lots of new moves and instantly see which ones are good. So it could iterate its way through that learning process to get to really, really good moves. And so then you…”
Benedict Evans Oct 19, 2022 ▶ 28:40 Wondering about generative AI
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