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Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

#41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But to do this you would need unbiased people. Since those don't exist, this correction would just be matching the bias to that of the bias adjuster.

Nah, you just need enough people to review the fixes. If at the end everyone is unhappy with the results, you're good to go.

There's an infinite number of wrong answers that also anger everyone, so that's not a sufficient metric for correctness.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

#42

fast.ai are doing the best work democratizing AI (machine learning and neural networks), including natural language Can't recommend the course enough and it's incredible that such a quality resource is available for essentially zero cost https://github.com/fastai/course-nlp https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtmWHNX-gukKocXQOkQju...

The “Why is this course taught in such a weird order?” section is really interesting.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

#43
post #12

What does democratize even mean?

de·moc·ra·tize /dəˈmäkrəˌtīz/

verb

introduce a democratic system or democratic principles to. "public institutions need to be democratized"

make (something) accessible to everyone. "mass production has not democratized fashion"

https://www.google.com/search?q=democratize

I suppose that would be the second meaning.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

#44
post #12

What does democratize even mean?

The real answer: Democratisation of software or systems is making Free and Open Source all the software and knowledge required to operate the software or system. Democratisation is also implementing structures that make the development process beholden and accountable to the users. Fundamentally it's about giving the users true ownership over the software and a voice in the development process and/or operation.

Now how it's used here? It's more just a buzzword that suggests they are trying to make it more accessible by selling it as a SaaS. They seem to have a focus on ethically providing access to these more powerful ML systems but what this'll actually mean beyond "cover our ass" is up in the air.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

#45
post #9

What stops Google, Microsoft, etc from doing the same if Cohere's solution gains traction?

I wonder if either of the two companies have introduced many new products recently?

When you only have $1m you might as well poke around various ideas and see if you can get another million or ten. Now, if you're sitting on tens of billions of dollars your priorities change - it's far more profitable to grow a $10b pie by 10% than a $1m by 1000%. I'm pretty sure that's what happened to Oracle and IBM, hence we rarely hear about them anymore.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

#49

The same day this made the front page of hacker news, one of the founders is also playing his first live concert with his band tonight: https://twitter.com/goodkidband/status/1435267485683568642 . The best part of the story for me is the work-life-balance he's able o achieve.

Ha, what a great find. First time listening, but liked their music [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t9TxR4IolM

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

#50
post #5

"democratize" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. The word you are looking for is "mass-market" or perhaps "sell to small business".

What they say they're doing fits one of the definitions of democratize: "make (something) accessible to everyone". More about the etymology here: https://www.etymonline.com/word/democratize

Commoditize as an alternative?
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