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Are there any proven examples of a company doing this (starting with a manual approach), receiving investment, and eventually developing a working AI product?

pushtheenvelope 7y ago
seems like many self-driving car startups follow this model?
- nordiccoder2 7y ago
  There is no such thing as a self-driving car, and there won't be for at least 20 more years.
  - bananocurrency 7y ago
    thanks! that's clearly what the above comment was asking. . .
freehunter 7y ago
Depends on how you define AI. If you're talking hands-off, learned-from-scratch ML and deep learning. I'm not sure. If you're talking "used a human to learn the steps and then slowly automated those steps", then you're describing basically every company that's ever existed.
- EpicEng 7y ago
  >If you're talking "used a human to learn the steps and then slowly automated those steps", then you're describing basically every company that's ever existed. So, obviously not that definition then....
  - RosanaAnaDana 7y ago
    That's a pretty weak definition then. Might be your issue right there.
zaroth 7y ago
There was a fairly hyped scheduling assistant which had human intervention to start... Ah here [1] it is, X.ai. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520681 * Interestingly, searching on Google for “x.ai human” lead me back to the HN discussion as the 4th link! I’m seeing HN discussion surface in organic search results a lot more lately.
- ed312 7y ago
  That's likely because your Google profile points HN threads as relevant / what you're searching for. Try using DDG for a less biased search result.
  - zaroth 7y ago
    This did not occur to me. This would be mildly terrifying if true, except Incognito mode returns the same results.
    - mrguyorama 7y ago
      Does incognito mode change your IP address? I wouldn't doubt google still "knows" it's you
    - sean2 7y ago
      The hn link is 5th result for me on google, but that link is the bottom of the second page on ddg (20th result I think?). I think google is following you in your incognito mode!

pushtheenvelope 7y ago

seems like many self-driving car startups follow this model?

nordiccoder2 7y ago
There is no such thing as a self-driving car, and there won't be for at least 20 more years.
- bananocurrency 7y ago
  thanks! that's clearly what the above comment was asking. . .

freehunter 7y ago

Depends on how you define AI. If you're talking hands-off, learned-from-scratch ML and deep learning. I'm not sure. If you're talking "used a human to learn the steps and then slowly automated those steps", then you're describing basically every company that's ever existed.

EpicEng 7y ago
>If you're talking "used a human to learn the steps and then slowly automated those steps", then you're describing basically every company that's ever existed. So, obviously not that definition then....
- RosanaAnaDana 7y ago
  That's a pretty weak definition then. Might be your issue right there.

zaroth 7y ago

There was a fairly hyped scheduling assistant which had human intervention to start... Ah here [1] it is, X.ai. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520681 * Interestingly, searching on Google for “x.ai human” lead me back to the HN discussion as the 4th link! I’m seeing HN discussion surface in organic search results a lot more lately.

ed312 7y ago
That's likely because your Google profile points HN threads as relevant / what you're searching for. Try using DDG for a less biased search result.
- zaroth 7y ago
  This did not occur to me. This would be mildly terrifying if true, except Incognito mode returns the same results.
  - mrguyorama 7y ago
    Does incognito mode change your IP address? I wouldn't doubt google still "knows" it's you
  - sean2 7y ago
    The hn link is 5th result for me on google, but that link is the bottom of the second page on ddg (20th result I think?). I think google is following you in your incognito mode!