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An interesting thing I learned in the interview process was that the AI and automation that was supposedly powering the new efficient global shipping was actual
by z9znz 4y ago
An interesting thing I learned in the interview process was that the AI and automation that was supposedly powering the new efficient global shipping was actually 95% humans doing the normal human work, not some great technical system.
But to be fair, I also worked for an "AI" startup which was going to revolutionize a certain type of business payment processing system with AI, but in fact it was just another paypal or stripe.
Talk big, and maybe if you get enough funding and have enough time you can actually fulfill the promises you've made. If not, maybe you can at least get a nice exit. $$$.
- yunohn 4y agoKinda nice to hear I wasn’t the only one with such an experience with Flexport. Indeed, I also found it surprising that it wasn’t as automated as they hype it to be. Felt mostly like a glorified CRM, which I guess in the shipping industry of pen & paper is seen as a massive improvement.
- ZeroSolstice 4y agoYup, I took an applied machine learning course which shed light that most vendors oversell what they call AI and ML processing. Perusing through the company structure provides some insight into how invested a company is within the AI operating space. You should be able to find some papers or people at the company that work in the AI/ML space.