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It's like the gold rush except the gold (data) is easy to make, and very very cheap. hmm better sell shovels.
by buboard 7y ago
It's like the gold rush except the gold (data) is easy to make, and very very cheap. hmm better sell shovels.
- crtlaltdel 7y ago^this is a tactic that i see as viable in all the hype-cycle spaces
- ilovetux 7y ago6k4f²488 2g3=3t3 is
- stereolambda 7y agoYeah, people say that, but it's hard to see what selling shovels would amount to. I mean, hardware/cloud is commoditized, ML software is free. Maybe Uber for annotators /s (read, Mechanical Turk). (Of course, there is the ever more popular route of making services for enterprises wanting to outsource basic stuff.)
- buboard 7y agoi think most ml jobs are for finding/cleaning data anyway . I suppose an "ebay of data" might be successful
- mchen076 7y agoRealistically the "shovels" are the compute services. And the shovel makers are really doing well. What you don't really see is the ML startups making billions yet. What you do however see is companies like Microsoft with their Azure product and Amazon with AWS Compute making bank off the tech startups doing ML. I really think the people who are cashing in the most with the ML craze are the cloud/compute providers. I would be curious to see just how much VC money is being passed indirectly to MS Azure through ML startups.
- buboard 7y ago> the cloud/compute providers And Nvidia
- streetcat1 7y agoAutoML