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Man, i really love wit.ai, one of the coolest projects i've worked with. Unfortunately, these days i'm becoming jaded to X as a Service. Things like hosting or databases as a service are quantifiable, i have an idea of how much effort it takes me to migrate away... but AI? Especially the cool AI flavored NLP that wit.ai offers - it's just too hard to migrate away from for me. With that said, i understand how hard doi…
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Could you explain why it is in your best interest to do so? Unless your community-based efforts are focused on "built on Wit", you would be actively lowering the bar to entry. From a company standpoint, the commoditization of the GP's comment is directly counter to your incentives as a business.
Not sure I correctly understand your question, but I'll give it a shot. Today, Wit offers many advantages out-of-the-box so you don't have to setup your own solution. As NLP gets more commoditized (e.g. through open-source, open datasets), Wit will have to provide even more value than today to stay relevant. Value can be ease of use, accuracy, etc. That's how the field makes progress. Regarding best interest, if you…
Man, i really love wit.ai, one of the coolest projects i've worked with. Unfortunately, these days i'm becoming jaded to X as a Service. Things like hosting or databases as a service are quantifiable, i have an idea of how much effort it takes me to migrate away... but AI? Especially the cool AI flavored NLP that wit.ai offers - it's just too hard to migrate away from for me. With that said, i understand how hard doi…
Isn't microsoft's luis.ai providing a very similar kind of service?
Hi everyone! I'm one of the cofounders. This is an early beta of our Bot Engine. We would love to get the community's feedback. Thanks!
hey ar7hur - excited about the release. i've seen/heard that wit.ai likes to use clojure (lisp for AI programming? of course!). was clojure used to power Bot Engine? if so, how did your team like the experience?
I'm thinking of lots of other places I can use it too now - is there a name for this approach yet?
I really like the "deliberate overfitting of stories to make them behave like rules" approach. It's the kind of thing that sounds obvious as soon as you say it, but only comes from deep immersion in the problem space. I'm thinking of lots of other places I can use it too now - is there a name for this approach yet?
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> X as a service allows you to get X with a lot less efforts. I think it's more accurate to say that it allows you to borrow X. It's very true that it helps to bootstrap your own product and eventually if things work out you can bring X in-house. My worry about everything-as-a-service is that until that point, each different service that you use is an another vulnerability to your product. This goes double for specia…
There's little risk of depending on external services if you use multiple that provide the same type of service hidden behind an abstraction layer and can remove one of the vendors from the mix with the press of a key.
Any startup founder who follows this strategy is concentrating on the wrong thing. Pick the provider who's most likely to last and build against their service. That way you are more likely to fail than they are.
I really like the "deliberate overfitting of stories to make them behave like rules" approach. It's the kind of thing that sounds obvious as soon as you say it, but only comes from deep immersion in the problem space. I'm thinking of lots of other places I can use it too now - is there a name for this approach yet?
Thanks Nick. No name yet, do you have a suggestion? Uberfitting? :)
Can't say I love it though.
I really like the "deliberate overfitting of stories to make them behave like rules" approach. It's the kind of thing that sounds obvious as soon as you say it, but only comes from deep immersion in the problem space. I'm thinking of lots of other places I can use it too now - is there a name for this approach yet?
Thanks Nick. No name yet, do you have a suggestion? Uberfitting? :)