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What if AI timelines are too aggressive?

The vibe in the AI industry today feels a lot like the self-driving industry in 2018.

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Timothy B. Lee
Jan 22, 2025
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On May 31, 2018, Fiat Chrysler made a bombshell announcement: Waymo, Google’s self-driving company, would purchase up to 62,000 Pacifica minivans for use in its driverless fleet.

I was excited. A year earlier, I had started covering self-driving cars more thoroughly because I believed the technology was on the verge of large-scale commercialization. The …

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