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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 1 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2027
Ludwig: Gen-II autonomous vehicle will be commercialized by 2027
“This is being commercialized in, in the next year”
Disclosure
Ludwig: Applied Intuition provides data collection kits to US Navy
“With the Navy, we do this thing called the data edge collection kit. So it's, Basically a system to enable the Navy to do modern data collection for training their own AI models.”
Insight
Ludwig: AI proficiency is replacing software engineering domain specialization
“I think the, it's becoming a little bit less important now to be, let's say, a specialist software engineer in a given field, because The AI tools, they can turn you into a specialist much more quickly, but you need to be an expert in the AI tool use itself, a…”
Disclosure
Ludwig: Applied Intuition runs one operating system across tractors, mining, and construction
“So the same operating system and platform Really runs across all of these vehicle types. So like literally on this tractor, and then over here, if you take a look there, this is actually we're showing re in real time. We have actual construction and mining equ…”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ludwig: Future of Mining and Construction Will Be Fully Autonomous
“So the future of mining and eventually construction is going to be these fully autonomous operations, where labor shortage is a real problem in the industry, and so this allows a very small number of people to control a huge number of vehicles.”
Disclosure
Ludwig: Applied Edge Packages Defense Tools to Run Completely Off-Grid
“This is our mobile command center, and so all of the development tools and infrastructure that we are typically able to use to build interesting defense technologies at, say, in an office environment, all of that is packaged up and can run completely offline, …”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ludwig: Applied Intuition Is Remotely Controlling Patrol Boats in the Ocean
“We have actual boats out in the ocean which we are remotely controlling and doing a patrol operation.”
Assertion Supported
Ludwig: Applied Intuition retrofitted Army vehicles for autonomous driving in 10 days
“In 10 days, we had a very small team retrofit our vehicle operating system and our SDS, or self-driving system, onto the vehicles, and then yeah, at 10 days, we showed them a video of these infantry squad vehicles driving autonomously out, out in a test enviro…”
Assertion Supported
Ludwig: Only 1% of mines worldwide are autonomous
“Only one percent of mines are autonomous.”
Disclosure
Ludwig: Transformer advances prompted Applied Intuition's physical AI expansion
“One was transformers. That were originally successful for large language models, like you heard about Anthropic and OpenAI those started to have an impact on self-driving technology and robotics, and we thought that was really interesting, and then on top of t…”