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Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 0:33 Benedict Evans The very high level threat to Google is that you have this moment of discontinuity in which everybody resets their priors that reconsiders their defaults. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:10 Benedict Evans I'm pretty sure people thought Microsoft had an advantage on the internet, and Google and, um, Meta had an advantage on mobile, and everyone thought IBM was going to win PCs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:47 Benedict Evans I think the, the, the, the obvious Google threat right now is that, um, Google shows you a bunch of links and results and ideas, and those could now be solved in a different way. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:13 Benedict Evans Which is you need such an enormous amount of generalized text that the amount that Google has or that Meta has is not actually enough to move, to be a kind of a fundamental difference in what you can train with. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Benedict Evans Same in Google Trends.
- ▶ 29:07 Benedict Evans It's the Google.
- ▶ 30:47 Benedict Evans So what you have with Google Search, that Google has all the feedback from how people use it that makes the search engine better. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:47 Benedict Evans So what you have with Google Search, that Google has all the feedback from how people use it that makes the search engine better.
- ▶ 1:00:37 Benedict Evans Like, this was a technology that had been kind of floating around before ChatGPT, 3.5, and everyone kind of saw that it didn't work very well, and then ChatGPT works, well, no, actually it works well enough, and then there's this explosion… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:43 Benedict Evans The question for Apple is how much does, would integrating an LLM into the operating system change the experience of what it is, potentially shifting the competitor balance with, with, with, with Pixel, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:02 Benedict Evans There's another axis here, which is what happens to Google search?
- ▶ 1:06:04 Benedict Evans Even half the cool, sexy Google stuff is in the Google app on the iPhone. 4 times in the scene