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akilian

23 karma · joined July 7, 2012

co-founder and cto @ clara labs (YC S14)
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akilian··on Worker-in-the-Loop: A Retrospective
This is right on; but it is still difficult to pull off in practice. I expect that 5-10 years from now it will be somewhat standard/turnkey.
akilian··on Worker-in-the-Loop: A Retrospective
Appreciate it!
akilian··on The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work
It depends on the use case and business model. At the end of the day, the question is can the business scale with good unit economics. Software, machine learning, etc.. are just potential levers. Reminder that no businesses have 100% gross margins, even SaaS companies cap out around 80-85% because they need to provide human support alongside their software.
akilian··on Measuring Quality in Conversational Interfaces
Hi there. Co-founder of Clara and post author here. Happy to answer any questions people have about how we measure quality!