I’m an AI software engineer and I predict that most AI startups being funded today will die::Here’s how to tell which ones could make it.

  • @[email protected]
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    482 years ago

    I’m not an AI software engineer and I could have told you that - not only is it true for all startups of any kind, but given the insane level of hype around AI, it’s obvious

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      AI is the new crypto. Idiots will be fleeced. Schemes will be hatched. Vaporware will vape.

      In 2-5 years there will likely be some Intel- or Google-like companies with big controlling stakes in AI. Investing in the them then will likely be a good idea. Trying to figure out now which of the 61,000 AI startups will become them, and hoping to win the lottery in the process, is a fool’s game.

      Also a non-zero chance that AI itself is all vaporware and the “industry” fizzles out completely.

      • pewter
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        12 years ago

        I thought you were comparing their utility as technologies and I was going to disagree, but as investment opportunities you have a good point.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 years ago

    I guess he could leave out AI. Most startup will die. There was a time they use to say 9 out of 10

  • CALIGVLA
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    272 years ago

    No shit sherlock, most startups fail regardless of the industry.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      I disagree. There will definitely be porn ones that make it, but there’s a lot of AI porn startups.

  • @[email protected]
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    162 years ago

    I’m a theoretical physicist and I can predict most dropped objects will fall to the floor

  • @[email protected]
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    142 years ago

    They’re planning a numbers game, if one out of a thousand grows a thousand times as large, you’re still money up

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    What, you’re saying startups (known to go bankrupt within months in most cases) will go bankrupt? I can hardly contain my gasps! What incredible insight. /s

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    Crashing open doors :
    most business go bankrupt,
    most innovations we try fail,
    most of Nature’s attempts are ludicrous.
    Still …we shall try again and again.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    Imho, the only guys who have a chance to develop an AI for general use are those funded by Google, Microsoft or Elon. The Big Tech guys with deep pockets, who are prepared to burn cash for the long run. Others need to find their niche.

    • FuglyDuck
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      102 years ago

      And those are the guys who should be the least trusted with such an AI.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        Nobody can be trusted with such an AI. That’s why, hopefully, there won’t be one dominant player.