George Sivulka

9 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 21, 2023 by George Sivulka · across every show →

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Jun 21, 2023
Insight
Sivulka: Human-in-the-loop guidance is essential for useful outlier detection
“Like, if I just took a data set and I said, here are all your outliers, it's actually less helpful than saying, hey, across this principal component, I want to know what's an outlier. And so kind of back to the whole human in the loop paradigm, I think it's ve…”
George Sivulka Jun 21, 2023 ▶ 28:55 AI and the Future of Knowledge Work with Hebbia’s CEO George Sivulka
Jun 21, 2023
Disclosure
George Sivulka: Remaining solely in financial services means Hebbia failed
“If we stay in financial services, I will have failed.”
George Sivulka Jun 21, 2023 ▶ 21:17 AI and the Future of Knowledge Work with Hebbia’s CEO George Sivulka
May 29, 2025 negative
Opinion
Chatbots are like calculators, inadequate for serious enterprise knowledge work
“Chatbots are, in my eyes, like the TI-eighty-four, or like the HP-twelve-c, like a calculator. It's a one-off, you know, I'm gonna go and put in my equation and then get a response. Nobody does their taxes in a calculator. Nobody, you know, computes a DCF or, …”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 24:10 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
May 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Generalized AI software will defeat vertical AI specialization
“One of the things that is a massive fallacy in AI applications today is verticalization. As paramount. All of the VCs, a lot of entrepreneurs as well, believe, because it's been true for the last 20 years, that building a very verticalized piece of software is…”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 21:02 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
May 29, 2025 positive
Opinion
Sivulka calls Microsoft Excel the most important software ever invented
“The spreadsheet in Excel is the most important software to have ever been invented.”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 25:02 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
May 29, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
A new productivity suite will emerge for non-coding AI interaction
“We think that there's going to be an entirely new productivity suite for how humans, how experts, want to interface with AI without having to get in the weeds in code”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 25:58 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
May 29, 2025 negative
Opinion
AI hallucinations are old news; modern models outperform humans
“I think it's old news. And I think the only reason we still talk about it, it's like everyone talks about hallucinations and, you know, no one knows if it's happening or what's going on. It's like fugazi fugazi. Like, it was a problem back when the models were…”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 34:26 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
May 29, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hybrid teams of humans and AI agents will dominate organizational structures
“You're going to start to have, you know, fully human organizations. Actually fully AI organizations like the one person billion dollar startup or, you know, these things that are effectively just APIs. And you'll actually have, and this will be the most common…”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 10:56 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
May 29, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
The artificial intelligence base model layer will eventually become commoditized
“We believe the model layer will become commoditized.”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 31:58 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
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