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AI sceptics have long dismissed short or medium timelines as speculation with no basis in data.
But recent revenue growth undercuts this argument. It's now the AI sceptics who have to show that current trends will break.
Stefan Schubert
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Stefan Schubert
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I run The Update newsletter.
Book: academic.oup.com/book/56384
Joined October 2014
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