general AI

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 10, 2021 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

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Jan 10, 2021 negative
Insight
Evans: Disparate telemetry datasets cannot be combined to produce general AI
“Siemens has lots of telemetry data on wind turbines, and General Electric has lots of data, telemetry data on aircraft engines, and Transport for London has lots of touch-in, touch-out data on Oyster cards, and those are all different things, and you can't kin…”
Benedict Evans Jan 10, 2021 ▶ 4:39 There's no such thing as data
Feb 18, 2022 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Evans: Tech may never achieve full vehicle autonomy, mirroring general AI
“It may be that we never get full autonomy, and full autonomy is a bit like general AI in that, you know, this is a joke in AI that, you know, AI is anything that doesn't work yet, because as soon as it works, people say that's not AI, that's just a database.”
Benedict Evans Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 3:22 Asking the dumb questions
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