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Interesting, if we consider building AI as a startup, what would be the answer to standard investors question - what problem does it solve?

by viach 12y ago

kefka 12y ago
It allows complete confidentiality and 100% presence for your personal assistants. It also brings down personal assistants to the price that everyman can afford... and that's where marketers show why you could never live without one.
- viach 12y ago
  Ok, it's me maybe, but why would you need personal assistant, really?
  - JabavuAdams 12y ago
    Wait till you have kids, high-powered jobs, and information-dense hobbies. I would love to have a personal assistant. Jaba, I see you're drunk. Laser Sintering 3d printers are 50% off today. Shall I go ahead and order you one? EDIT> And a property. Fucking houses.
  - kefka 12y ago
    That's why I made the comment about marketers. A personal assistant is something you never knew you couldn't live without.
jbarrow 12y ago
There have been a couple of companies that have tried this, mainly Numenta (Jeff Hawkins) and now Vicarious (Dileep George). The latter it's had a successful funding round, getting millions from big-name investors and entrepreneurs. The value proposition for both of them was creating biologically inspired AI, and Numenta eventually came out with an anomaly detection program, Grok. I think it was largely bankrolled by its founder (he was also the inventor of the palm pilot), though I'm not entirely sure. The value proposition for Vicarious is that it has a secretive, general-purpose AI (not to be confused with Artificial General Intelligence, aka Strong AI), but save a few videos of their program solving CAPTCHA's, nobody knows too much about their offerings yet.
- oxtopus 12y ago
  Numenta is very much alive. Grok is available in the form of an AMI on the AWS EC2 marketplace, and if you're curious about how it all works under the hood, NuPIC, the core implementation is free software, available at https://github.com/numenta/nupic https://github.com/numenta/nupic

Interesting, if we consider building AI as a startup, what would be the answer to standard investors question - what problem does it solve?

by viach 12y ago

Interesting, if we consider building AI as a startup, what would be the answer to standard investors question - what problem does it solve?

kefka 12y ago

It allows complete confidentiality and 100% presence for your personal assistants. It also brings down personal assistants to the price that everyman can afford... and that's where marketers show why you could never live without one.

viach 12y ago
Ok, it's me maybe, but why would you need personal assistant, really?
- JabavuAdams 12y ago
  Wait till you have kids, high-powered jobs, and information-dense hobbies. I would love to have a personal assistant. Jaba, I see you're drunk. Laser Sintering 3d printers are 50% off today. Shall I go ahead and order you one? EDIT> And a property. Fucking houses.
- kefka 12y ago
  That's why I made the comment about marketers. A personal assistant is something you never knew you couldn't live without.

jbarrow 12y ago

There have been a couple of companies that have tried this, mainly Numenta (Jeff Hawkins) and now Vicarious (Dileep George). The latter it's had a successful funding round, getting millions from big-name investors and entrepreneurs. The value proposition for both of them was creating biologically inspired AI, and Numenta eventually came out with an anomaly detection program, Grok. I think it was largely bankrolled by its founder (he was also the inventor of the palm pilot), though I'm not entirely sure. The value proposition for Vicarious is that it has a secretive, general-purpose AI (not to be confused with Artificial General Intelligence, aka Strong AI), but save a few videos of their program solving CAPTCHA's, nobody knows too much about their offerings yet.

oxtopus 12y ago
Numenta is very much alive. Grok is available in the form of an AMI on the AWS EC2 marketplace, and if you're curious about how it all works under the hood, NuPIC, the core implementation is free software, available at https://github.com/numenta/nupic https://github.com/numenta/nupic