brilee comments on [LINK] Strong AI Startup Raises $15M - Less Wrong

17 Post author: olalonde 21 August 2012 08:47PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (13)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: brilee 21 August 2012 11:54:36PM 6 points [-]

Would be nice to have details of their algorithmic approach, instead of some nebulous buzzword like 'Recursive Cortical Network'. I suppose it does hint somewhat at neural networks...

Their website also seems to emphasize the wrong thing - emphasizing the potential of visual processing algorithms and such. I would be more worried about whether their team is smart/visionary/revolutionary enough to make significant headway on such a difficult problem. Because they're emphasizing the 'wrong' things, it sets off my 'Solyndra' alarms.

Comment author: latanius 22 August 2012 04:49:59AM 2 points [-]

Agreed. Just giving their algorithm a fancy name doesn't mean that they've come up with something signficantly better than the ideas in the countless papers in Computer Vision... the only evidence for that seems to be the 15M they just raised (but for that it seems to be enough if you have a good implementation with near state-of-art performance and a workable business idea. Or is it?)