Benedict Evans

6 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 2, 2025 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

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Sep 2, 2025 neutral
Insight
Evans: Never publish writing if ChatGPT could have generated it
“Now I can just say, is this what ChatGPT would have said? And if the answer is, this is what ChatGPT would have said, then I don't publish it. Not because people can get it from ChatGPT, but because anyone would have said that.”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 45:32 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
Sep 2, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Evans: Tech will build around AI for 10 to 15 years
“My sort of base case is to say, this is kind of another platform shift, and all the new stuff will be built around this for the next 10 or 15 years, and then there'll be something else.”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 1:42 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
Sep 2, 2025 negative
Opinion
Evans: OpenAI's weekly active user metric is deliberately misleading
“Now, OpenAI is doing weekly active users, and Sam Waltman was a social media startup founder. He knows this. It's a bullshit number.”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 34:28 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
Sep 2, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Evans: AI's impact equals the iPhone, not the Industrial Revolution
“It's funny, my, I suppose my take on AI, controversial take on AI, rather like my controversial take on crypto is being a centrist, in that it seems to me very clear this is like the biggest thing since the iPhone, but I also think it's only the biggest thing …”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 1:08 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
Sep 2, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Evans: US Surveys Show Only Roughly 10% of People Use LLMs Daily
“You look at survey data, and I did this slide in the last presentation I did of, like, five different surveys from the US from late last year, earlier this year, and it's all roughly the same. It's like something around 10% Give or take three or four percent o…”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 34:34 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
Sep 2, 2025 negative
Insight
Evans: For LLMs, variance is bad and originality receives a lower score
“For an LLM, variance is bad. Originality is, is, is a lower score.”
Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 47:30 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
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