The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

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why aren't all 5 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Assertion Contradicted
Brute-forcing a 10-word sentence requires one billion permutations
“For a machine to create a sentence out of 10 words, it has to go through one billion permutations.”
Sameer Maskey May 28, 2015 ▶ 3:04 Sameer Maskey, Fusemachines // Improving Customer Service (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
Insight
True data scientists need engineering, machine learning, and visualization mastery
“In order to really be a data scientist, you need to know engineering very well, so that you can process all forms of data. You need to know machine learning also very well, Which takes many, many years of training, and you also need to know, ah, all these user…”
Sameer Maskey May 28, 2015 ▶ 25:16 Sameer Maskey, Fusemachines // Improving Customer Service (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Contradicted
42 billion customer service calls are made annually
“Forty-two billion calls come to call centers in a given year.”
Sameer Maskey May 28, 2015 ▶ 1:30 Sameer Maskey, Fusemachines // Improving Customer Service (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Fusemachines deployed an AI customer service platform with NYC in 2014
“This is a system that New York City deployed. This is our system. They deployed it last year”
Sameer Maskey May 28, 2015 ▶ 6:36 Sameer Maskey, Fusemachines // Improving Customer Service (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
In 2015, AI cannot hold fully automated conversations with humans
“We are not at the point where we have fully automated talking machines that can converse with humans as we do”
Sameer Maskey May 28, 2015 ▶ 19:22 Sameer Maskey, Fusemachines // Improving Customer Service (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
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