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How exactly does this "democratize" AI? Doesn't this only potentially prop up another AI company with the hope that YC will be backing it (and thus profit from
by personjerry 10y ago
How exactly does this "democratize" AI? Doesn't this only potentially prop up another AI company with the hope that YC will be backing it (and thus profit from its success)?
- cbanek 10y agoIt just seems like "democratize" is one of those new startup buzzwords. But yes, it seems like really what they want to do is bring it to market, and by democratize, they mean have everyone buy it.
- kabes 10y agoYep, No one was taking "disrupt" serious anymore, so they needed a new word to strip from its meaning.
- olalonde 10y agoI'm not a buzzword historian but I'm fairly sure "democratize" has been around for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization_of_technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization_of_technology
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoWouldn't a "third AI company" be a net positive for society? Especially if it wasn't tied to a large network of other interests/products like the existing ones are? The biggest risk right now is that a select few companies are buying up every single company that "does AI" which massively limits the market.
- personjerry 10y agoWhat would prevent this company from being bought up? And is "select few" and "select few +1" all that different?