So is it like Tensorflow-as-a-servce?
Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
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Re: Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
#12From https://algorithmia.com/bounties : MACHINE TRANSLATION Bounty $100 OK.
Having bounties at all is above average for a seed-stage startup with 13 people.
Most people that are successful here are surely doing it for personal joy and satisfaction, not the money.
Re: Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
#13Reminds me of http://www.wolfram.com/language
Funny you said that because as soon as I read the article on Algorithmia, I started to see ads for Woldfram, including getting their free eBook on ML.
Re: Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
#14So is it like Tensorflow-as-a-servce?
Not to rain on Algo's parade, but check this out if you're looking for tensor as a service - https://www.floydhub.com
I am not affiliated with those guys in any way, but I just really liked their idea.
Re: Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
#15So is it like Tensorflow-as-a-servce?
Yep, Generic and ML algorithms as a service in the form of APIs, say you have an app and wants image classification in it. Why take the pain of building your own model and then porting it to your app? Simply use this API!
Re: Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
#16So is it like Tensorflow-as-a-servce?
Yep, Generic and ML algorithms as a service in the form of APIs, say you have an app and it wants image classification in it. Why take the pain of building your own model and then porting it to your app? Simply use this API!
Re: Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
#17So is it like Tensorflow-as-a-servce?
Yep, Generic and ML algorithms as a service in the form of APIs, say you have an app and it wants image classification in it. Why take the pain of building your own model and then porting it to your app? Simply use this API!
AWS already has an image recognition API.
Re: Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
#18From https://algorithmia.com/bounties : MACHINE TRANSLATION Bounty $100 OK.
Having bounties at all is above average for a seed-stage startup with 13 people. Most people that are successful here are surely doing it for personal joy and satisfaction, not the money.
I don't think these are bounties offered by the company. They look user driven. Many are hilariously undervalued with very poor specifications making them pretty much worthless (i.e. the example above).
Re: Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
#19From https://algorithmia.com/bounties : MACHINE TRANSLATION Bounty $100 OK.
Having bounties at all is above average for a seed-stage startup with 13 people. Most people that are successful here are surely doing it for personal joy and satisfaction, not the money.
The foundations of social sites, even pseudo-anonymous ones, are built on signaling and skinner boxing with imaginary currency[1]. The prestige from being awarded something, anything, from challenging competition at a community with strong participants is not without value. Quantopian successfully does something similar with HFT, although part of their shtick is accessible data and tooling.
[1] Example: "/u/joebob has a lot of karma/likes/retweets, he must have generated a lot of content deemed valuable by this community to earn that.../u/joebob is actually Joseph Smith, who got a got a great job/exit/customer after becoming internet famous in this forum...I, too, will benefit if I collect a lot of that sweet, sweet karma...I don't think I'll derive as much benefit as /u/joesmith, but getting upvoted for articulating my thoughts is really fun."
Re: Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
#20Ah at first I thought this meant google had a fund whose investment choices were being completely controlled by an AI. That would have made for a much more interesting story, oh well.
There was a story on NumerAI just yesterday. Not acquired by Google yet, but basically the same thing.