New Startup Sets Out to Bring Google-Style AI to the Masses

New Startup Sets Out to Bring Google-Style AI to the Masses(wired.com)

62 points by cyphersanctus 11 years ago | 24 comments

xixixao 11 years ago |

Having examples just executable from the website is invaluable, especially to excite more people. For fun:

Relatedness of Sentences (beta)

1 - not related at all

5 - an almost perfect paraphrase

Two men are taking a break from a trip on a snowy road

Two men are taking a break from a trip on a road covered by snow 4.05

Two men are taking a break from a trip on a road covered by rocks 4.13

Two men are taking a break from a trip on a road covered by mushrooms 4.23

Two men are taking a break from a trip on a road covered by hobbits 4.27

Plenty of work ahead :)

31reasons 11 years ago | |

Several children are playing with the leaves

Several leaves are playing with the children : 4.26

Indeed!

matheweis 11 years ago | | |

Yea, I also wasn't impressed:

"a few guys are drinking water at the mall" -> "stuff" : 4.22

lol

lispm 11 years ago |

> “deep learning,” teaching machines to recognize images and understand natural language using software that operates a bit like the networks of neurons in the human brain.

'understand natural language'?

Very far from it...

> I saw the movie, where the main actor's wife was so angry - but I was having a great day

Result 99% negative...

> he was hit hard

> he played a hit single

Relatedness 4.5, from 1-5

hashtree 11 years ago |

A solid group of talent, welcome to the club. I am interested to see where the "deep learning" start-ups end up in ten years time with such a wide-array of problem sets and industries.

danvoell 11 years ago |

Am I the only person who is worried that AI start-up companies are going to use AI to insert "deep learning" into every pitch deck possible?

dchichkov 11 years ago | |

Well, you can somewhat discriminate between them. Just look at people who work at that startup. Have they been doing GPU / Deep Learning staff at around 2010, when it had started showing promise? (this group of people is probably limited to a bunch of grad students and some small communities around a few open source projects). If yes, then you don't need to worry. After all, they've been smart enough to pick up deep learning half a decade earlier, before it had became a buzzword. And now they probably have experience in the area. A solid bet.

On the other hand, if these folks are just some bozos, who picked up a buzz-word and now are trying to hack some stuff together. Well. It's your call.

(I'm not in any way affiliated with that startup. and I haven't checked on the background of that PhD guy. Although I do have some small vested interest in the field of "deep learning" in general. And I don't want it to become yet another dead buzz word. And WTF - why Google is being used in the headline?)

31reasons 11 years ago | |

Deep learning has become a buzzword that every CEO on the planet is going to put in his/her presentations.

e.g

Deep learning will allow us to identify new opportunities and capture more value from existing markets..blah blah blah.

rrrx3 11 years ago | | |

is this the sexy re-brand that Machine Learning has been waiting for?

(honest question.. are they the same thing?)

aluhut 11 years ago | | |

Which is not bad.

At some point people will decide it would be good to deliver something with that claim.

melling 11 years ago | |

Nah, why would most people waste their time worrying about that? If start-ups do or do not, it doesn't matter to most of us. Are you a VC?

bearzoo 11 years ago | |

'Deep learning' is the new 'big data'

deeviant 11 years ago | | |

Well, they are just trying to disrupt the big data space with enterprise level deep learning allowing better branding position and lessening inertia to allow quicker pivots. It makes sense to do this because we are at a inflection point where an autonomous thought leader can appropriate the mind share of the by market by leaning in to this space and bringing to bear value added innovation. Also, hacking.

(passes out due to buzzword-itis)

_deh 11 years ago | | |

'Big learning'

colordrops 11 years ago | |

I'm not worried, but the term "deep learning" is indeed lame. What does it even mean?

abrichr 11 years ago | | |

It is "an approach to AI based on enabling computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts, with each concept deﬁned in terms of of its relation to simpler concepts." [1]

[1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/intro.html

tonydiv 11 years ago |

Having spoken to Sven a few times, I think they are targeting industries/applications more specific than their website appears :)

If anything, I would consider this to be a competitor to Context Relevant and Alchemy API instead of Clarifai.

slntdth7 11 years ago |

Wait til the machines rise against us