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Ask HN: Where to find Artificial Intelligence/NLP early adopter customers

3 points by codyguy 13y ago

Hi HN, Where can one find a set of customers/early adopters for Artificial intelligence/Natural language processing technology. We are not looking to sell the company but looking for paying partners/customers willing to work in a SAAS model. I imagine there would be people interested in giving semantically correct answers to questions asked in natural language.

Irishsteve 13y ago
Is it a framework? or are you looking to apply ai / nlp to a particular problem
- codyguy 13y ago
  Not a framework yet. For now think of it as NLP interface to your content.
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gyardley 13y ago
Don't look for customers for your AI / NLP technology, look for customers with problems that can be solved with your AI / NLP technology and then sell them a solution to that problem.
- codyguy 13y ago
  Exactly what I'm looking for. How to go about it? Where to start.
  - thenomad 13y ago
    What's the simplest, most brain-dead obvious application of your skills/technology you can think of? Ideally, it should be something you can't believe anyone would pay for. That's probably your best bet for areas to start investigating. Seriously. Smart people tend to think they have to solve hard problems, but usually (in my experience, and from watching other successful entrepreneurs like Patio11), the money's in doing stuff that you think is really easy, and other people think is hard.
- hashtree 13y ago
  I am surprised how often the OP question is posed and how often this has to be said.
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ig1 13y ago
What can your technology do ?
- codyguy 13y ago
  For now, end users can achieve 2 things: 1. Context aware, semantically correct answers to questions (based on the user's content). This is ideal for automatic virtual assistant, FAQ answering via a bot etc 2. Context aware, semantically correct conversations (chat like) for expert systems (i.e. Natural language interface for an expert system). I'm really excited about the accuracy I'm seeing and want to release it to some real world clients.

3 points by codyguy 13y ago

Irishsteve 13y ago

Is it a framework? or are you looking to apply ai / nlp to a particular problem

codyguy 13y ago
Not a framework yet. For now think of it as NLP interface to your content.

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gyardley 13y ago

Don't look for customers for your AI / NLP technology, look for customers with problems that can be solved with your AI / NLP technology and then sell them a solution to that problem.

codyguy 13y ago
Exactly what I'm looking for. How to go about it? Where to start.
- thenomad 13y ago
  What's the simplest, most brain-dead obvious application of your skills/technology you can think of? Ideally, it should be something you can't believe anyone would pay for. That's probably your best bet for areas to start investigating. Seriously. Smart people tend to think they have to solve hard problems, but usually (in my experience, and from watching other successful entrepreneurs like Patio11), the money's in doing stuff that you think is really easy, and other people think is hard.
hashtree 13y ago
I am surprised how often the OP question is posed and how often this has to be said.

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ig1 13y ago

What can your technology do ?

codyguy 13y ago
For now, end users can achieve 2 things: 1. Context aware, semantically correct answers to questions (based on the user's content). This is ideal for automatic virtual assistant, FAQ answering via a bot etc 2. Context aware, semantically correct conversations (chat like) for expert systems (i.e. Natural language interface for an expert system). I'm really excited about the accuracy I'm seeing and want to release it to some real world clients.