Is Your AI Idea Any Good? A 5‑question Stress Test From a Serial Founder

In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this was easy; for example, a customer relationship manager like Salesforce is naturally reducible to rules.

In a post-AI world, you can build applications for ... See more

Whenever you hear about a supposed success in AI, here’s a list of six questions you could ask: Stripping away the rhetoric, what did the AI system actually do here? How general is the result? (E.g., does an alleged reading task measure all aspects of reading, or just a tiny slice of it?) Is there a demo where I can try out my own examples? (Be ver

... See more

We tell entrepreneurs to find a need, test, and trial until they find a solution to that need, move fast, and break things. Yes, betas work; our method is a process of induction, right out of the playbook of the scientific method. Yet we need to insert a framework of intentionality into that process so that at the end of our experiments, we have a

... See more

When we simply try to implement what we’ve done before, using AI to do it more quickly and cost-efficiently, we might see some cost savings, but we will utterly fail to surprise and delight our customers. Instead, we have to re-envision what we do, to ask ourselves how we might do it with AI if we were coming fresh to the problem with this new tool... See more