At the time of the conversation, Carly Taylor was Field CTO for Gaming at Databricks and the founder of ggAI. On Chain of Thought she traced the direct line from video game innovation to the current AI boom, from GPU advances to how decades of in-game experiences shaped popular understanding of AI.
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Because you can't act on anything you could have learned in the beta. All you're learning is that you weren't prepared from a data perspective. And then players also have an expectation of betas now, a bit more polished. It's gonna set the stage for how your pre orders are gonna look. It's gonna set the stage for what people's expectations are. It's gonna set the stage for reviews.
Why Gamers Paved the Way for AI | Databricks' Carly Taylor
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