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With all the advancements in ML, there's a new set of lowest hanging fruit, and it's incredibly exciting.

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I'm not an expert, but I imagine that the companies working on those easier problems already started a couple of years ago.

Hard problems like self driving cars and natural language interfaces are way beyond the capabilities of a small startup.

ericdOP6y ago

Cruise was a small startup that got at least basic self driving working before they sold to GM. IIRC it was <10 people when I rode in one of their converted Audis. Lots of startups are working on NLP. I wouldn't be so pessimistic.

pier256y ago

Cruise was founded about 5 years ago which is what I was saying on my previous comment.

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pier256y ago

I'm not an expert, but I imagine that the companies working on those easier problems already started a couple of years ago.

Hard problems like self driving cars and natural language interfaces are way beyond the capabilities of a small startup.

ericdOP6y ago

pier256y ago

Cruise was founded about 5 years ago which is what I was saying on my previous comment.

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