sarah guo @saranormous·Apr 27, 201712/ Most execs have very little understanding of how to "apply AI" today51142
sarah guo @saranormous·Apr 27, 201712/ This is unsurprising: they are caught between the tech industry's "magic cognitive AI does everything" hype marketing...2332
sarah guo @saranormous·Apr 27, 201713/... and of course not having the technical understanding to identify labeled datasets/decisioning opportunities for supervised learning3137
sarah guo @saranormous·Apr 27, 201714/ AI-enabled consumer products are making much, much faster progress so far, delivering new UX to consumers who are voice and photo-first3340
sarah guo @saranormous·Apr 27, 201715/ I'm optimistic we can do much better than this over the next few years as we get to the slightly less obvious ideas...1119
sarah guo @saranormous·Apr 27, 201716/... and there is more crossover between people who understand domain problems, workflow, modern ML and product3133
sarah guo @saranormous·Apr 27, 201717/ End musings! Side note: check out @AndrewYNg's HBR article on what AI can and can't do right now: https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-artificial-intelligence-can-and-cant-do-right-now…61785
sarah guo @saranormous·Apr 27, 2017ughhhh if I were a bot, I might be shit at interacting, but at least I wouldn't have numbered my thread 12/ 12/ 😣6140
agibsonccc@agibsonccc·Apr 27, 2017As a founder on this "map" I agree. Most teams are founded by scientists with zero clue on what "sales" or "applications" are ;/17
Djamé..@zehavoc·Apr 27, 2017if their business model is to get acquired by a much bigger company, they're probably right. Why should they care?11
agibsonccc@agibsoncccReplying to @zehavoc @saranormous and 3 othersIf that is the case they certainly dont acknowledge it in their marketing7:30 AM · Apr 27, 2017·Twitter for Android
Djamé..@zehavoc·Apr 27, 2017Replying to @agibsonccc @saranormous and 3 othersNot publicly of course, why would a company with no sales whatsoever give stock options or shares to its employees?11
agibsonccc@agibsonccc·Apr 27, 2017Only asset they have. Beyond that they sell dream jobs. Nothing wrong with that. Sv vcs just want to flip tech quick. Interests align3