Hacker News Reader

Comment by jakozaur | Hacker News Reader

Majority of AI startups are starting with manual approach to generate training data set for future algorithms...

Plus it is a faster way to validate demand for given business model.

Are there any proven examples of a company doing this (starting with a manual approach), receiving investment, and eventually developing a working AI product?

Depends on how you define AI. If you're talking hands-off, learned-from-scratch ML and deep learning. I'm not sure. If you're talking "used a human to learn the steps and then slowly automated those steps", then you're describing basically every company that's ever existed.

>If you're talking "used a human to learn the steps and then slowly automated those steps", then you're describing basically every company that's ever existed.

So, obviously not that definition then....

That's a pretty weak definition then. Might be your issue right there.

There was a fairly hyped scheduling assistant which had human intervention to start...

Ah here [1] it is, X.ai.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520681

* Interestingly, searching on Google for “x.ai human” lead me back to the HN discussion as the 4th link! I’m seeing HN discussion surface in organic search results a lot more lately.

That's likely because your Google profile points HN threads as relevant / what you're searching for. Try using DDG for a less biased search result.

This did not occur to me. This would be mildly terrifying if true, except Incognito mode returns the same results.

The hn link is 5th result for me on google, but that link is the bottom of the second page on ddg (20th result I think?).

I think google is following you in your incognito mode!

Does incognito mode change your IP address? I wouldn't doubt google still "knows" it's you

seems like many self-driving car startups follow this model?

There is no such thing as a self-driving car, and there won't be for at least 20 more years.

thanks! that's clearly what the above comment was asking. . .

I think demand for VC-subsidised labor and real estate will always be high.

So their founders should be charged with securities fraud and go to jail if they do not tell the investors that it is what they are doing.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com