Benedict Evans

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941 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard May 2025

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How often do you get a query?

Or the driver says, Is this the yogurt you want?

Yep.

Or is that the wine you wanted?

And then what?

And so that's the the kind of the problem with all of these.

Yeah, I'm trying to think how to put this at a kind of conceptual level.

There was like a trap with Siri and Ch and Alexa, which was that natural language processing worked.

So you thought it was AI and it wasn't.

It was actually still just an an IVR, it was still just a tree.

And there's a trap with these humanoid robots, which is some people look at them and think it's AGI.

And it's not, it's just a robot that's got legs instead of wheels, but it's still a robot.

Just because it doesn't all they solved is the t biped falling over thing.

But if that was going round on four wheels instead of two legs, you wouldn't go, Oh my God, it like it changes the world.

Um and there's a similar thing about agents, which is just because you can ask it

go and order my groceries doesn't mean it's going to be able to do it.

And it'll try.

But again, it's my error rate question is is it gonna really work or is it gonna kind of sort of look like it worked some of the time?

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