Two in five 'AI startups' essentially have no AI, mega-survey of nearly 3,000 upstarts finds Like teenagers lying about their age to get served in a pub, tech startups are lying about their AI technology or skills to get VC money. A full 40 per cent of tech companies describing themselves as "AI startups" had no evidence of any machine-learning tech "material" to what the firms actually did, a report by VC investor …
The only time I was ever asked was the Monday after my 18th birthday. The barmaid said she didn't believe me so I pointed through the hatch to the lounge bar and said, "Ask Jeff. He's my neighbour and he was at my party on Saturday." She turned to Jeff, who looked up from his dominos, grinned and said, "Nah, never seen 'im before in my life."
I pissed on his lawn when I got home.
AI (as a textual search technology) does exist. AI uses AI-parsing, which opposes n-gram parsing.
There is a sentence:
-- Alice laughs, dances and sings. --
The traditional n-gram parsing gets a contiguous sequence of n (3) items from the above sample of text - one gets only
- Alice laughs dances sings.
With AI-parsing you get three phrases
- Alice laughs
- Alice dances
- Alice sings.
Next you discover appropriate dictionary definitions for each word, which provides you with the words' true meanings, and parts of speech. Now you can find this sentence by its true meaning.
According to NIST TREC a system that can find answers on bot Factoid and Definition questions is AI. AI-parsing - as IBM Watson, Google, etc. shows - helps to find both.
AI exists, read my patents and ride Google's Waymo.
Well if you can be a ferry company without any ferries then why can't you be an AI company without AI?
I myself specialise in transporting imaginary cargo to imaginary people who live and work on imaginary space stations. I've no cargo, customers or rockets but can I still have some money Mr Grayling please?
"Well if you can be a ferry company without any ferries then why can't you be an AI company without AI?"
There's such a thing as leasing. I wonder how many ferry companies actually running ferry services are without ferries on this basis. Quite a few, I suspect. Ditto airlines without aircraft.
I wonder if this is a successful ploy by the ERG made credible by Grayling's involvement. No, of course we won't need extra ferry sailings and extra ports to handle them; it's all going swimmingly.
I want to know how long it's going to take those non-existent ferries to sail to Sydney and back once we get Johnson's Australia deal from the EU, rather than the Canada deal, the Iceland deal, the Norway deal, the Switzerland deal and the have-our-cake-and-eat-it deal which we've previously been promised.
According to NIST TREC a system that can answer both Factoid and Definition questions is AI.
-- "As a quick reminder: a factoid QA is about providing concise facts. For example, "who is the headmaster of Hogwarts?", "What is the population of Mars", and so on, so forth."
-- "Question definition is - an interrogative expression often used to test knowledge. How to use question in a sentence."
So, AI does seem made for.
In addition, the final question in each series is an explicit “Other” question, which is to be interpreted as “Tell me other interesting things about this target I don’t know enough to ask directly”. This last question is roughly equivalent to the definition questions in the TREC 2003 task.
The Other questions were evaluated using the methodology originally developed for the TREC 2003 definition questions. A system’s response for an Other question consisted of an unordered set of [doc-id, answer-string] pairs.
AI came from NIST TREC QA. Please stop this buzz and study at least something. Otherwise you all look like idiots.
AI works for bananas?
I am starting up an SAI venture; Synthetic Artificial Intelligence, the AI isn't real but it almost works the same in as much as it's not intelligent. Looking inside the box is forbidden because it upsets the monkey.
Of course the monkey is much smarter than any AI but it still isn't intelligent.
You can determine if AI is used asking
-- What parsing is used?
If n-gram - it's not AI.
-- Are tuples formed?
where a tuple is a finite ordered list of phrases. Making tuples one creates uniqueness, makes it easy to find the right piece of information answering both Factoid and Definition questions.
-- Do you describe everything by texts?
Everything - signs, sounds, images, etc. - can be described in words, which allows to search by meaning.
I would like to know how investors earn their money, because they're so easy to waylay with magic words.
Last year you could literally walk over the heads of investors at trade shows wanting to invest in anything that had the word "blockchain" in it, even if it was evident from the most casual informed glance that it was utter BS.
I've now seen this so often that I consider the expression "a fool and his/her money" a default for the whole early investor market. It's idiotic beyond belief.
"Last year you could literally walk over the heads of investors at trade shows wanting to invest in anything that had the word "blockchain" in it, even if it was evident from the most casual informed glance that it was utter BS."
A classic from 2017:
It's a mad mad mad mad world, I tell ya!
"Hang on just a minute" is something I frequently think when I'm researching an article. There's an awful lot of blaggers out there in startup land, as we all know. Add to this the fact that many acronyms are misused in order to confound clients, or simply used without care and attention to the fact that the same acronym is already in common parlance for something else. I've already got a list of almost 50 things that can be 'as a service', including 4 that are SaaS, after about 30 mins of light Googling.
Where we would all be beyond surprised to see someone offering 'true' strong AI, I think it's fair to say that most would hope for at least some element of machine learning to be involved in a product purporting to be 'AI'. Presumably some of these companies are fudging things in the hopes that they will get enough expertise/funding/miracles in the near future to be able to implement something like what they're promising.
Others will simply be taking advantage of the fact that people assume AI to mean 'artificial intelligence', as in the case with AIOps - originally coined to mean 'algorithmic IT Operations' rather than 'artificial intelligence operations' as customers would be prone to assume. Of course, some of those companies have gone on to add a lot more in the way of artificial intelligence, or at least machine learning to their products.
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