Anthropic teams up with venture capital firm to kickstart $100M AI startup fund

Anthropic is setting up a $100 million fund for AI startups with the help of venture capital firm Menlo Ventures. Termed the Anthology Fund, the nine-figure pool of cash will be doled out to "the next generation of AI startups" Menlo Ventures says. Each startup is eligible to receive an investment of at least $100k, with no …

[An_Old_Dog]

Future ML-Based Home Appliances

I can envision The World of Tomorrow in which GAN AI/ML is baked-into home appliances. For example, your refridgerator could learn/predict when to automatically dispense food products! As an improvement to current built-in ice-makers, the Refridgerator of Tomorrow ("RoT") will, after a suitable training period, squirt out a stream of ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and/or pickle relish onto the open face of a sandwich you'd been preparing and just happened to walk by the RoT with! Isn't that convenient? (You may wish to put a large, shallow plastic bin on the floor beneath the RoT during the training period.)

More, with a optional battery pack and software adapted from Tesla's Full Self-Driving System, the RoT can walk your dog, or even escort young children, the aged, and the infirm to and from parks, churches, and shopping centers, stopping appropriately at traffic lights (some additional training and tuning may be required around this)!

.

Mark my words, many millions of pounds will be frittered away on things like these, and many tragi-comic videos will be made.