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The name is bad and the name is everything in tech. I thought it was some answers.com AI spinoff. This is far too generic and a google search of it is a nightmare. You don't buy your books on books.com, you buy them on amazon.com, you don't buy your pet supplies on pets.com, you buy them on chewy.com.
There's a lot to be said for just exploring the combinatorial space of possibility in even a naive or brute force manner.
This makes me nostalgic for something that I never had and doesn't seem to exist anymore, labs unburdened by either the red tape of government or academia, or alternately, the pressure for results and profits that many startups seem to slaved to. Is there a 21st century equivalent of Bell Labs out there somewhere? Asking for a friend.
What service was used to create the Ai voice? It's one of the first I've heard that sounds pleasant and life like.
I believe it was done with OpenAI TTS
> Legally, Answer.AI is a company. But in practice, it might hover somewhere between a lab and a normal “profit-maximizing firm” — as was the case with Edison’s lab. The founders seem perfectly content to pursue high-risk projects that might lead to failures or lack of revenue for quite a while. In saying this, I do not mean to imply they are content to light money on fire doing research with no chance of a return. R…
Jeremy from Answer.AI here -- Answer.AI is, to some extent, the subject of this article. Perhaps worth noting here that we didn't pay the author, Eric Gilliam; it's his independent analysis based on years of study of 19th & 20th century R&D labs. I'm hoping that not only will Answer.AI be successful, but that Eric's words in the conclusion will come to pass: > "If their USD10 million experiment works, it has the chan…
Jeremy from Answer.AI here -- Answer.AI is, to some extent, the subject of this article. Perhaps worth noting here that we didn't pay the author, Eric Gilliam; it's his independent analysis based on years of study of 19th & 20th century R&D labs. I'm hoping that not only will Answer.AI be successful, but that Eric's words in the conclusion will come to pass: > "If their USD10 million experiment works, it has the chan…
Would you consider providing an RSS feed for the list of published articles? Thank you.
This makes me nostalgic for something that I never had and doesn't seem to exist anymore, labs unburdened by either the red tape of government or academia, or alternately, the pressure for results and profits that many startups seem to slaved to. Is there a 21st century equivalent of Bell Labs out there somewhere? Asking for a friend.
Jeremy from Answer.AI here -- Answer.AI is, to some extent, the subject of this article. Perhaps worth noting here that we didn't pay the author, Eric Gilliam; it's his independent analysis based on years of study of 19th & 20th century R&D labs. I'm hoping that not only will Answer.AI be successful, but that Eric's words in the conclusion will come to pass: > "If their USD10 million experiment works, it has the chan…
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How are you thinking about the role of patenting at Answer.AI? How about handling tech transfer issues with universities?
I don't think we'll want to patent anything, since that's something which keeps people out -- and we want to let people in! The only reason I could think of that we'd need a patent portfolio would be for defensive purposes.
I'll be rooting for you to succeed in this endeavor. I used to visit IBM ARC when I was a kid, and to my mind the academic environment is not quite the same. But as you know we really have not seen corporate R and D recover from the peaks it attained over fifty years ago.