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Never before has an AI startup done so little with so much. That puts their total funding with debt at around $130 million. It's an utter waste. Reminds me of t
by blueyes 9y ago
Never before has an AI startup done so little with so much. That puts their total funding with debt at around $130 million. It's an utter waste. Reminds me of the $15 billion IBM has spent on Watson. The people with the money are very poor judges of technologists in this space.
- jorgemf 9y agoCan you expand what have Vicarious done?
- jgalt212 9y agogiven his answer the implication is zero, but I too an curious about any of their accomplishments, proofs of concepts and/or MVPs.
- blueyes 9y agoThey're secretive about it, a bit like Watson. If they could really beat the benchmarks, they probably would have let us know by now.
- blueyes 9y agoThey've published a few research papers. Few other researchers cite them, so it's hard to argue that their research has been influential, or even significant. In 2013 they announced they had solved/broken CAPTCHA, but refused to share their code, for which they were criticized: https://www.vicarious.com/news-detail-02.html https://www.vicarious.com/news-detail-02.html More recently, they published a paper on what they call Schema Networks, which are an attempt to blend deep learning with concepts. They're winning Atari games with that, but DeepMind did it years ago. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04317 https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04317 They're seven years old, and until recently, they'd raised $70-$80 million. I would have expected more than a few research papers in that time, if I were their investors.
- jorgemf 9y agoThe first time I heard about DeepMind (months before it was adquired by Google) I though something similar: "winning Atari games with reinforcement learning and neural networks doesn't sound like it is worth 50 millions of pounds in investment". So I don't want to make the same mistake again and I will read carefully the paper. Thanks!