Isn't this precisely how AI started? It was a bunch of humans under the hood doing the logic when the companies said it was AI. Then we removed the humans and the quality took a hit. To fix that hit, 3rd party companies are putting humans back in the loop? Isn't that kind of like putting a band-aid on the spot where your arm was just blown off?
Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
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Re: Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
#142I feel like HumanLayer is a great idea, but decision fatigue and bystander effects could pose challenges. If people are overloaded with approvals or don't feel ownership over what they're verifying, the quality of oversight might drop. + also even if approved, you still have to make sure the agents doesn't hallucinate at the execution phase.
Re: Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
#143I feel like HumanLayer is a great idea, but decision fatigue and bystander effects could pose challenges. If people are overloaded with approvals or don't feel ownership over what they're verifying, the quality of oversight might drop. + also even if approved, you still have to make sure the agents doesn't hallucinate at the execution phase.
Don’t worry, that’s why we’re launching AI4HumanLayer.ai.io.
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Re: Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
#144Hiring humans to do a consistent job is gonna be a nightmare and a limit on the scalability of the service. How are you defining your service level agreements?
They aren't providing the humans. Just the tools for integrating human input/oversight.
this is correct - I think helping you BYO humans will help you get much better training/labeling than outsourcing anyways, and that's the end vision of all of this - use humans to train agents so someday you might not need human in the loop, and those humans can move on to training/overseeing the next agent/application you're building
Re: Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
#145You’re close. It’s not the humans in the loop in standard tasks you need though, it’s human surrogates for AI agents to do jobs they can’t for a variety of reasons (like missing a body or requiring an internet connection).
I have a request for startups for this: “GraggNet: Task Rabbit for AIs
Surrogate humans for AIs to use before robotics are human level”
Re: Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
thanks for bringing this up. I just spent 2 hours last night digging into MCP - I'd love to learn more about how you think this solves the HitL problem. From my perspective MCP is more of a protocol for tool calling over the stdio wire, and the only situation it provides HitL is when human is sitting in the desktop app observing the agent synchronously? Again, genuinely looking to learn - where does MCP fit in for as…
You could implement some blocking HitL service/tool as an MCP server.
ah okay - I guess in that case, I would like chain a HitL step as an MCP server that wraps/chains to another tool that depends on approval?
or is there a cleaner way to do that?
Re: Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
#147Congrats on the launch! Just commenting to wish you guys good luck
thanks!
Re: Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
#148Is that possible to connect it to an existing website chat widget apps like tawk? Also, caught a few typos on the website: https://triplechecker.com/s/992809/humanlayer.dev
thanks - great catch. cool service :)
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