Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
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Re: Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
#2> For another, it’s next to impossible to launch a startup in 2024 without some upfront AI pitch
Nitpicking on one specific sentence, but reading that feels so dumb...
Re: Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
#3> For another, it’s next to impossible to launch a startup in 2024 without some upfront AI pitch Nitpicking on one specific sentence, but reading that feels so dumb...
It's what got us that awful pin.
Re: Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
#4Their track record based on Humane AI does not exactly give the confidence on building an AI search you can trust. Also what a pivot from hardware to fact-checking?
Re: Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
#5Their track record based on Humane AI does not exactly give the confidence on building an AI search you can trust. Also what a pivot from hardware to fact-checking?
Two reasons commonly cited:
- The perception that founders with big tech "credentials" stand a better chance of success than those without. The founders of Humane were ex-Apple.
- The idea that founders will generally be more successful on their second try, even if their first ended up being a complete trash fire - see Adam Neumann's new venture. This one sounds more reasonable on the surface but I've got no data to back it.
Re: Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
#6I don't know why the title is written the way it is. It's slightly different from the title on the article -- "Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup".
The current link title "AI Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup" reads like an AI running the company Humane left to start its own AI powered fact-checking startup. It's very Kafkaesque and funny but maybe a bit inaccurate.
Re: Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
#7Their track record based on Humane AI does not exactly give the confidence on building an AI search you can trust. Also what a pivot from hardware to fact-checking?
Fact checking is not objective, you just need to convince someone that your facts jive with their perception.
Re: Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
#8> For another, it’s next to impossible to launch a startup in 2024 without some upfront AI pitch Nitpicking on one specific sentence, but reading that feels so dumb...
If you remember their original teaser videos years ago and the writing around their product when they were in Stealth Mode, it had nothing to do with AI. The sales pitch was that it was the next iteration of an iDevice-like device with a unique form factor and method of interaction.
Only at the very end did they blast "AI AI AI AI" all over the marketing and rename it to "AI Pin" and have everything AI in AI their AI announcements AI talk AI about AI. It was pretty transparent what they were up to.
Re: Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
#9> For another, it’s next to impossible to launch a startup in 2024 without some upfront AI pitch Nitpicking on one specific sentence, but reading that feels so dumb...
This was true like 8 months ago but investors are getting wise to it.
Re: Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
#10Their track record based on Humane AI does not exactly give the confidence on building an AI search you can trust. Also what a pivot from hardware to fact-checking?
Fact checking is not objective, you just need to convince someone that your facts jive with their perception.
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