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These are very specialised industries though, requiring some deeper and more formal knowledge than when a new platform appears and there's a sudden hunger for e
by piva00 4y ago
These are very specialised industries though, requiring some deeper and more formal knowledge than when a new platform appears and there's a sudden hunger for experiences on that platform.
The web and later smartphones have been the real startup breeders of the past 30 years. Biotech and AI require quite a bit of academic knowledge to innovate on and aren't on the same potential of big platforms like web/phones.
- yunwal 4y agoUsing pre-trained AI models only requires surface-level knowledge about AI. You need to know its limitations, but you don't need to know tensorflow or how transformer networks work to be able to use AI for consumer applications.
- brundolf 4y agoDisagree about AI. I think it's going to upend industry after industry, and the gold-rush is not going to be in making new advancements, but applying the startling new capabilities of the last year or so to more and more domains In this way I think it's very similar to the web and then mobile booms
- anonylizard 4y agoNot at all, only passion is needed. Look at websites like CivitAI. Its literally just a front-end + a S3 bucket backend that allows people to share and download large stable-diffusion models (100MB-8GB). The website founder was not an AI guy, he was a web-dev background and former founder. The website is already a huge success, forcing the incumbent (Huggingface, backed by Amazon) to try and hurriedly copy its features.