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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company
“I think probably some people, probably almost certainly at Google were thinking, oh, we can create narrow intelligence that’ll be better than humans at certain tasks.”
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- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
Transcript context
…AlexNet, the cat paper, that whole world is about better classifying data. Can we better sort into patterns? It’s a giant leap from there to say, oh, we’re going to create intelligence. I think probably some people, probably almost certainly at Google were thinking, oh, we can create narrow intelligence that’ll be better than humans at certain tasks. A calculator is better than humans at certain tasks.…
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