machine learning

also referred to as: ml

9 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2021 by Yann LeCun · across every show →

Everything said about machine learning, oldest first

Dec 10, 2021 neutral
Insight
LeCun: Current machine learning replicates System 1 thinking without reasoning
“Currently what we can do in machine learning is more like the system when the stuff that, you know, here is an input, here is an output that does not re require reasoning if you want.”
Yann LeCun Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 6:01 Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode)
Dec 10, 2021 neutral
Insight
LeCun: Engineers cannot directly build intelligence, machines must learn it
“There is no intelligence without learning. And in the engineering world, it's almost true as well. And it's probably because I'm either lazy or not smart enough to, that I think that as human engineers, we cannot actually directly conceive and construct an int…”
Yann LeCun Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 4:09 Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode)
Jun 4, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
AI Can Augment or Replace at Least $1 Trillion of Economic Work
“If you look at the subset of tasks where machine learning can Help or take over for humans or augment humans. It adds up to about a trillion dollars worth of work if you were most conservative.”
Erik Brynjolfsson Jun 4, 2022 ▶ 8:28 Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson
Jun 4, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
AI Cannot Fully Automate Any Single US Occupation, Study Finds
“What we found was that in most jobs, there were some tasks that machine learning could do better than humans, or would be able to if you applied the technology, and there's kind of a gold rush now to do that. But in not a single occupation, we looked at all of…”
Erik Brynjolfsson Jun 4, 2022 ▶ 7:15 Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson
Jun 4, 2022 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Brynjolfsson: Next Tech Wave Will Disproportionately Hit Lower-Skill Jobs
“Our analysis that we did in a follow-up paper with Daniel Rock of Wharton suggests that as with the previous wave, the next wave of technology also will disproportionately affect some of the lower and middle skill jobs compared to the higher skill jobs”
Erik Brynjolfsson Jun 4, 2022 ▶ 13:03 Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson
Aug 3, 2023 positive
Insight
Wood: Generative AI makes ML far more accessible by eliminating model training
“One of the super interesting things about generative AI is inherently because you're not training the models yourself, you're taking models from Amazon and Meta and a whole host of other stability, AI, and just building on top of them, ah, it makes machine lea…”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 4:29 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
Nov 13, 2024 negative
Insight
Söderström: Eliminating user effort harms apps by destroying vital feedback signals
“Going to zero user investment seems good in the short term, but I don't think it's good in the long term because you actually lose signal from that user. And at the end, I think they feel less participatory in the experience.”
Gustav Söderström Nov 13, 2024 ▶ 30:44 Spotify Co-President Gustav Söderström on their future with Generative AI
Mar 14, 2025 negative
Opinion
Albergotti: Apple's heavy marketing focus on privacy crippled its AI development
“And also, you know, another, another BS thing that Apple pitched, which this is privacy thing, which honestly, like, I cannot believe how much mileage they got out of that. They kind of just painted themselves into a corner because, you know, all these other c…”
Reed Albergotti Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 11:03 Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
Sep 5, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rapoport: Precision's lattice electrodes enable cross-patient ML learning
“In the precision system, one of the inherent advantages is that the data is so regular in structure that we're able to compress it. We're able to learn across patients, across populations, and leverage those learnings in the machine learning algorithms that we…”
Dr. Ben Rapoport Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 36:14 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge
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