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I wish there were more specific examples.

I'd be much more interested in a "secretary" product that openly acts as a gatekeeper and escalates important conversations to me as necessary. But Ghost is named very aptly - that seems to be a footing description for their service.

It would be really interesting to see long-term stats on success rates of founders who pivoted vs those who persevered with the original idea.

It was trained on 238M messages! This just goes on to show the strategic importance of data in modern machine learning. No wonder Google doesn't mind making the algos public: without the vast training data, they will not get you very far :(

Indeed.

Also this: http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/24/apple-prepping-siri-sdk-and...

Yes, but there is a summary in one of the comments above

Now that you are free to talk about it, could you explain how ASICs stack up against GPUs, in practical terms?

Not really, because usage data is what feeds better machine learning models. It's a positive feedback loop.

"A majority of bots might not even be intelligent, they're just convenient" - sums it up.

Who's next?

Will somebody please explain the use cases for slack bots to me? If they are basically glorified command line scripts, the I get it. But are there genuine and important use cases that require/can benefit from a richer dialogue?

This is not delusion, more like a rational exploitation. Given the 'moonshot' nature of the project and the fact they are planning an IPO, that's a negative signal, sounds like a potential pump-n-dump scheme. Somebody should run a good background check on them.

Not only they expect talent to work for free, they also expect employees to invest money in their startup: "We will consider your application anyway, but we prefer our co-founders have some "skin in the game." Really?

I am curious about the 2D embedding method: what constitutes a vector in the original "paper space" and how the 2D clusters where determined.

Interesting: apparently there is now an open visual Q&A training dataset: 254,721 images, 764,163 questions, 9,934,119 answers!

Yes, and the White House are the same guys running planting spyware in the American *ware products used around the world at unprecedented scale. Savvy?

"'Yandex', whatever that is" - Yandex is a $10B public company, a legitimate innovator and the top internet player in Russia. Ever heard of that country, or is it yet another "whatever that is" for you?

Bubble predictor?

Qed

Can the parents influence the dialogue in any way?

Looks like they are going to make materials available to non-Stanford students as well, promising a reddit group.

The new Magic startup is a great example of the huge value the interface provides, even a thin one.