Episode 108 — Statistics Gone Wild

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Ben and James discuss the meaning of artificial intelligence, whether machine learning qualifies, and a platform for dealing with the impact. Presented by MailChimp Links Chris Dixon: How Aristotle Created the Computer — The Atlantic Ben Thompson: The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence — Stratechery Dan Primack: Takeaways from Steve Mnuchins Axios Interview — Axios Maureen Dowd: Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse — Vanity Fair The Most Common Jobs in Every State — NPR At Blackrock, Machines Are Rising over Managers to Pick Stocks — [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/business/dealbook/blackrock-actively-managed- Ben Thompson: Verizon, AOL, Facebook Instant Articles, and … Continue reading Episode 108 — Statistics Gone Wild

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm doing okay. Oh, I'm a little frightened. There's some sort of
0:06.1	event going on at the stadium near my office, and they just set off a bunch of fireworks. So if there
0:10.8	are, if there are some explosions, non-podcastle-way of explosions, you don't know what they are.
0:17.5	It makes a, we'll make a nice change for our listeners that potentially we're getting explosions of a different type on this week. We'll see how we go. Exactly, exactly. This episode of Exponent is sponsored by MailChimp. With MailChimp, you can automate your marketing so you can get back to work. Send onboarding emails to introduce new subscribers to your business organization, automaticallyatically follow up with customers after a purchase and recommend other products that they'll love.
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0:51.4	automation without any of the headaches.
0:53.8	Our thanks to MailChimp for sponsoring Exponent.
0:56.6	Yeah.
0:56.9	Great to have them as a season sponsor.
0:59.2	Speaking of automation.
1:00.4	Yes.
1:01.1	Yes.
1:01.6	A nice little segue provided by the ad, which is quite true.
1:05.1	Yeah, our thanks to MailChimp for sponsoring this segue.
1:10.1	Awesome.
1:12.0	So this week I wrote a bit of a, in my estimation, a bit of a sprawling sort of article that
1:19.3	touched on a lot of different points.
1:22.9	It was nominally about artificial intelligence and what it is and where we are now.
1:28.4	You know, it's a hard topic to write about for lots of reasons.
1:32.1	One, I mean, neither of us are artificial intelligence experts.
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