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> We want it to be true Founders and salesman pretend it to be true for that sweet sweet VC money, while underneath devs try to fake it as plausibly as possibl
by avereveard 5y ago
> We want it to be true
Founders and salesman pretend it to be true for that sweet sweet VC money, while underneath devs try to fake it as plausibly as possible.
And I'll up it with a prediction: watch closely call centers, and as soon as you see them closing in droves, invest in ai startups as something begun to really move.
- dorkwood 5y agoHow would you notice an increase in call centers closing? Is there a place to view that data?
- avereveard 5y agoJob openings can make for a decent proxy. Large layoff would make the news too.
- redisman 5y agoI interviewed for a “AI” company and asked them about their tech that could take phone calls and extract orders! Wow really cool and impressive! How do you solve X? Oh we have a call center in Mexico that takes all the calls. So you have no usable AI tech at all? Nope. Ok nice talking to you. They had signed with a major retail company. They were actually making software for the call center. And the “CTO” was “working on” the “AI” in parallel. The company name had AI in it too
- raihansaputra 5y agoHere in Indonesia the joke is AI as Admin Intelligence, as Admin is the shorthand for people managing/doing administrative tasks. I admit it's a legit strategy to increase productivity (offshore/multitenant/software optimise service), but doing that and analyzing/training on the data still doesn't help creating an AI for it. Ex: Uber.