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Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology
The advent of the shovel didn’t suddenly put manual laborers out of jobs. Neither did the excavator. And robotics won’t either.
To pause or not to pause, that IS the question
We are nowhere near ready for the misuse of these new technologies. But that doesn’t mean a pause will work, or even be entirely possible.
AI: What It Can and Cannot Do
Artificial Intelligence (AI) startups are some of the most susceptible to hype and magical thinking. As a result, the reality of what modern AI can actually achieve becomes convoluted.
Invest in “Product-Ready” Technologies, Not Moonshots
At Creative Ventures, we often hear from our peers, “You seem really fearless about technical risk.” Ironically, this could not be further from the truth. We explicitly do not invest in technologies at Creative Ventures (even though we are a deep tech fund).
The Fall of Data Moats
“What’s your data moat?” It’s one of the most common questions to AI-related startups. It’s also an increasingly irrelevant question. Thanks to better representations and algorithms it’s now possible to do a lot more with a lot less data. Outside of a limited number of fairly specialized applications, data moats are becoming less and less secure.