Evans: Disparate telemetry datasets cannot be combined to produce general AI
Benedict Evans · There's no such thing as data · Jan 10, 2021 · at 4:39
Independent analyst Benedict Evans discusses why treating 'data' as an interchangeable commodity is flawed, using industrial sensor and transit examples.
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“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 kind of put them all in a pot and get something else out of them. You certainly wouldn't get General AI, you wouldn't get how many thousand out of it, but like, You wouldn't get anything out of those if you put them all in the same pot. It would still just be wind turbine telemetry data.”
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