automation

4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 16, 2017 by Tim Hwang · across every show →

Everything said about automation, oldest first

Jun 16, 2017 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hwang: Domain knowledge will be a critical future skill for AI implementation
“And I think, like, one enormous skill will be, like, domain knowledge. Because, like, coming up with, like, a technical capability is just, like, one part of this huge picture, right? Which is just, like, okay, so then, like, how do we actually introduce autom…”
Tim Hwang Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 10:11 At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
Jun 16, 2017 neutral
Insight
Hwang: The assumption that all automatable tasks will be automated is false
“Everybody always assumes that like, okay, if it can be automated, it definitely will be automated, right? But that's like a fallacy, because in certain cases, like, you may really worry about the security of your systems, right?”
Tim Hwang Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 8:00 At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
Sep 4, 2017 neutral
Insight
Emotional labor is harder to automate than complex tasks like driving
“We like to think that, like, the things that get automated are the easy things, and the things that don't are the ones that require more education, or training, or higher level skills, but actually I think it's, it divides more, like, the more human, sort of, …”
Lauren McCarthy Sep 4, 2017 ▶ 29:17 Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain · Y Combinator
Aug 30, 2018 neutral
Assertion Supported
Petersen: Academic research ranked freight forwarding as most susceptible to automation
“There's a great paper that I read about industries that are most susceptible to automation. And freight forwarding was the number one on the list. It was like, 99% of the work should be, that would be better done by software in this, like, academic paper.”
Ryan Petersen Aug 30, 2018 ▶ 47:09 Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.