Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

It seems to me right now you could do like a double blind test of the same prompt given to Groc, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, Deep Seek I bet most people wouldn't be able to tell which is which. Benedict Evans is a technology analyst known for his insightful takes on platform shifts in the tech industry. He sees AI differently than others. He spent decades spotting patterns others miss and dives into how people really use AI. Why is it that somebody looks at this? And gets it and goes back every week.

But only every week. The very high level threat to Google is that you have this moment of discontinuity in which everybody resets their price that we considers their defaults. And so it's no longer just the default that you go and use Google. There's this sort of question for Apple around does this n actually change the experience of what a smartphone is, what the ecosystem is. Does it end up kind of getting microsofted? In the sense that I wanna start with your most controversial take on AI. It's funny, my I suppose my take on AI, controversial take on AI rather like my controversial take on

Um crypto is being a centrist. In that Seems to me. Very clear this is like the biggest thing since the iPhone. But I also think it's only the biggest thing since the iPhone.

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