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Ask HN: Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

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Re: Ask HN: Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

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We use DL for our grammar checker in Zoho Writer (https://zohowriter.com). We don't advertise our product as "The next generation intelligent word processor".

It's just one of many features that's best done with AI. I like it that way. Pitching utility is so much better than pitching how we built something with blockchain, AI and IOT combined ;)

Re: Ask HN: Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

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We are an AI company working out of Hyderabad / India, We have a very fast Classification algorithm as a product. and currently been used by 3 paying customers.

http://www.alpes.ai/

We are releasing our API next week. The idea being you can quickly try out the algorithm and see Results and Training time on your own datasets.

Re: Ask HN: Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

#43

We use DL for our grammar checker in Zoho Writer ( https://zohowriter.com ). We don't advertise our product as "The next generation intelligent word processor". It's just one of many features that's best done with AI. I like it that way. Pitching utility is so much better than pitching how we built something with blockchain, AI and IOT combined ;)

This is more a feature of your product than being a integral part of your business model. Would you agree on the distinction?

Re: Ask HN: Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

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I run a company that does financial portfolio optimizations and runs regressions on financial time-series data. These tools are in some sense the very first widespread use of "machine learning" techniques (at least in finance). I've noticed the same effects that the OP mentions: a handful of companies in this sector using the same tools may slap "ML and AI" all over their product and marketing. They're not incorrect - it just feels like a bit of a stretch to do so.

Re: Ask HN: Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

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post #44

I run a company that does financial portfolio optimizations and runs regressions on financial time-series data. These tools are in some sense the very first widespread use of "machine learning" techniques (at least in finance). I've noticed the same effects that the OP mentions: a handful of companies in this sector using the same tools may slap "ML and AI" all over their product and marketing. They're not incorrect…

Sounds like your company is doing something similar to what my company was doing before I left. You're right - we weren't technically wrong, but it did feel disingenuous. I was never really sure if our customers actually derived value from our product in the way we wanted them to, or if it was simply a wildly speculative investment made by middle managers feeling FOMO after reading the Wall Street Journal.

Re: Ask HN: Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

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Uptake has real (paying) customers specifically for their ML based solutions.

Caterpillar (who initially was their biggest client and went as far as to buy a stake in the company) dumped them within the last year or two. Which doesn't exactly reassure me that they're creating real value.

Re: Ask HN: Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

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We use DL at my company. It's used to help and suggest the people in data input what some of the inputs should be. It's been getting better over time as it collects more data points. Apart from that, I'm also personally responsible for implementing DL for data anomaly detection. So yes, ML/DL is very much over-hyped right now, but it has real world tangible benefits. It is being used in multiple fields and I believe…

Hi, what services do you use for data annotation? We've been using DL for some projects of ours and had to set up a data annotation team (remote) to get more control over the labeling process. We are looking to see if others might be interested in utilizing a service like ours, which will also help the people we've acquired gainfully employed. At present we are mainly looking at taking on small projects. If this is of interest, please do let me know! I posted about this here, but hasn't surfaced enough to generate conversation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874184

Re: Ask HN: Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

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What do you mean exactly ? I've been running a machine learning / reinforcement / optimization service company since 2015 and our customers range from the largest EU corps to small and mid size startups. If you mean how many customers use AI/DL/RL in production right now, it's a smaller percentage of our customers, around 25% I'd say, but growing, slowly. Most is about research roadmaps and testing this testing that,…

Hi, what services do you use for data annotation? We've been using DL for some projects of ours and had to set up a data annotation team (remote) to get more control over the labeling process. We are looking to see if others might be interested in utilizing a service like ours, which will also help the people we've acquired gainfully employed. At present we are mainly looking at taking on small projects. If this is of interest, please do let me know! I posted about this here, but hasn't surfaced enough to generate conversation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874184

Re: Ask HN: Do AI/ML companies actually have real customers?

#50

We use DL for our grammar checker in Zoho Writer ( https://zohowriter.com ). We don't advertise our product as "The next generation intelligent word processor". It's just one of many features that's best done with AI. I like it that way. Pitching utility is so much better than pitching how we built something with blockchain, AI and IOT combined ;)

I hate to see that I need to login just to take a demo of your product. I find it a bad approach. First let the user checkout your product without intrusion.
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