AI isn't going to build your startup
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AI isn't going to build your startup
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Re: AI isn't going to build your startup
#2>The marketing materials AI produces are generic, soulless, and unremarkable. The public has already grown tired of them. What will stand out? The human touch.
Uhhh
https://theconversation.com/new-research-shows-people-cant-t...
People don't like stuff that is blatantly AI, but all they notice is the stuff that is blatantly AI.
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#4This looks like a rant from someone who is trying to justify their non-engineering job, which at face value is harder to justify than an engineering job. We will hear a lot of cries like it over the next decade, and they're all futile.
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#5AI has more than 10x'ed grant applications. Problem is the proposal evaluation side is not allowed to skip obvious LLM spam proposals nor use the same AI tools for doing/writing the evals.
So, if you were not a competent startup also good at writing grant proposals, getting funding for your startup from the cheapest capital available has become far more accesible.
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#6>The marketing materials AI produces are generic, soulless, and unremarkable. The public has already grown tired of them. What will stand out? The human touch. Uhhh https://theconversation.com/new-research-shows-people-cant-t... People don't like stuff that is blatantly AI, but all they notice is the stuff that is blatantly AI.
I think that article is more about the public not understanding “real poetry”(understandably) rather than testament to AI capability.
But I agree with you: there is a selection bias going on. I have no idea how much good AI writing I’ve been reading without realizing it.
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#7Starting a company is all about initiative. Taking action after talking to customers and learning about their problems. AI is about responding to prompts. No LLM takes action on its own. It doesn't define or find target customers or interview them or figure out new solutions that save them time and money. AI can help with each of these things by summarizing and generating content, but it doesn't do them without the right, human-generated, prompts.
Re: AI isn't going to build your startup
#8Starting a company is all about initiative. Taking action after talking to customers and learning about their problems. AI is about responding to prompts. No LLM takes action on its own. It doesn't define or find target customers or interview them or figure out new solutions that save them time and money. AI can help with each of these things by summarizing and generating content, but it doesn't do them without the r…
100%. You need informed human actors generating "valuable" prompts.