A Decade of Deep Learning: How the AI Startup Experience Has Evolved

So as an AI researcher in a large company, you have more of the luxury of thinking longer-term and building something, whereas in a startup, of course, you need to build something that people want right now. And it needs to be really, really good. And you need to be able to ship it in a reasonable timeframe. That’s the big difference: The vast majo... See more

I think if we had wanted to build a search engine company 5 or 10 years ago, it would have been insanely hard and basically impossible to compete with Google because we would have needed hundreds of people and huge amounts of training data to build the ranking systems that we’re building. Now, with a very small – albeit extremely smart and capable,... See more

And I think summarization is an important technology trend that more and more people in the next couple of years will appreciate as they see their time disappearing. When your time is valuable, you want simple tools to help you get stuff done. Instead, we get sucked into engagement loops from companies whose business model is often advertisements. ... See more