Also, thank you for doing something to hurt Intuit.
Recently, we started building our "MLOps" platform (https://iko.ai) to reduce the overhead of doing machine learning and the proverbial technical debt that makes makes ML projects so likely to fail and so expensive. This will hopefully lower the barrier to entry as people will be able to use this to deliver value without being in large organizations.
I have been asked time and time again by people I know personally who have small companies how they could hire us to use machine learning, and I was embarrassed time and time again to make them understand they couldn't afford it.
There are many ways to "democratize" the field. Some publish books and courses, others create libraries and frameworks, and we made a system to lower the operational hurdles.
Here it is again. I wrote:
>Recently, we started building our "MLOps" platform (https://iko.ai) to reduce the overhead of doing machine learning and the proverbial technical debt that makes makes ML projects so likely to fail and so expensive. This will hopefully lower the barrier to entry as people will be able to use this to deliver value without being in large organizations.
>I have been asked time and time again by people I know personally who have small companies how they could hire us to use machine learning, and I was embarrassed time and time again to make them understand they couldn't afford it.
>There are many ways to "democratize" the field. Some publish books and courses, others create libraries and frameworks, and we made a system to lower the operational hurdles.
My point was that the usual hurdles of a machine learning project and the inefficiencies made it almost exclusive to large organizations that could afford it, and we're solving that by building a platform that eliminates these hurdles to make it possible even for small companies and individuals to benefit from and use machine learning without hiring expensive teams or consulting companies such as ours.
This dramatically lowers the barrier to entry and the "activation energy".
These are the projects we've worked on off the top of my head with obvious benefits to the world. Now, imagine how fast we could have gone had we had our tooling.
For the less obvious projects: we help people live more by reducing mindless, numbing, soul-crushing tasks so that humans do what humans are good at. Think, create things.
My contribution is indirect since I don't work on the investment systems themselves.
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