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There are also a couple of other things that are involved here, and one of them is that investigative reporters rely on insiders to tell us when something bad is happening in a company. If you think about Theranos, [Bad Blood author] John Carreyrou’s sources were people inside Theranos. They were Theranos workers who were saying, “Hey, what’s going on here is fraud.”
This was especially vexing to physician and bacteriologist Robert Koch, who, in seeking to culture his bacteria, “bent all his power to attain the desired result by a simple and consistently successful method,” wrote bacteriologist and historian William Bulloch in his 1938 book, The History of Bacteriology. “He attempted to obtain a good medium which was at once sterile, transparent, and solid” and got some results with gelatine.6 But gelatine is easily digested by many microbes and melts at precisely the temperatures at which the disease-causing microbes Koch wanted to study grow best.
造成这种规模化应用水平较低的原因有两方面：一是前面讨论的智能体能力问题，虽然在快速进步，但离全面的实用性还有距离；二是各行各业的企业应用者要把智能体用好还需要一些自身条件的配合。