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by lbacaj 2692 days ago
As someone who has started messing around with different open TensorFlow models and NLP algorithms I believe there’s is a lot of exciting things that AI/ML will unlock, although there is far too much hype right now.

Still despite the hype there are a lot product opportunities and we are only beginning to scratch the surface thanks to these phones getting better and generally large scale compute becoming easier to access. However, I disagree with the author that we can’t go vertical for now and have an app for each little advancement to take advantage of the piece meal innovations in this space. I think that’s exactly what we should be doing ala Shazam, as he mentions. I think product discoverability and growth is a whole other problem and I don’t think one needs a fully integrated magic AI/ML camera on day 1 to make an impact and have a great product, old techniques coupled with some of the newer open source models/papers these big companies are putting out can work wonders.

As a little example of this, and some self promotion, I recently built a cross platform app that uses some AI/ML techniques to read any article to you from the web, forgive me for being a little self promotional but if your interested you can check it out here: https://articulu.com

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Was curious about what you mean by 'cutting-edge AI'. Is the FAQ page still under development?