One of the big startup purchases that happened while I was there was of a company that used machine learning to estimate the value of items in a room, ostensibl

One of the big startup purchases that happened while I was there was of a company that used machine learning to estimate the value of items in a room, ostensibly to guess how much your furniture and electronics are worth. Insurance companies are already good at actuarial sciences so they don't need you to estimate how likely someone is to file a claim, they need you to do things they're not good at