75% of founders in the latest Y Combinator cohort are working on AI startups

https://sherwood.news/tech/three-quarters-of-founders-in-the-latest-y-combinator-cohort-are-working-on/

by gmays • 2 years ago

7 4 2 years ago

Gaming is probably one of the most high risk software fields there is, but AI products are up there too. Especially since many consumers still have their reservations against the technology.

Don't know if that means that their products incorporate AI, or that an AI is the product. Anyway, I wish them good luck.

ai4ever2• 2 years ago

unlike dot-com which brought in ecommerce, or smartphone which put info and entertainment in our pockets, genai is not doing anything to our daily lives.

productivity improvements in certain usecases are about it. it is not a giant leap which dot-com or smartphone enabled.

r2_pilot• 2 years ago

genai is not doing anything to our daily lives.

I've used generative AI(specifically Claude 3 Opus and 3.5 Sonnet) for quite a lot of things in my daily life. Including using it to achieve the desired outcome where a legal process was being subverted and by writing a letter to the right department(drafted and edited with Claude's help); it helped a lot of other people out too in that instance. Not to mention my backlog of "programs/ideas I'd like to sketch out but don't have time for". Other than word processors, though, I've rarely had a computer program reconfigure itself to be helpful in wordsmithing with me, so maybe you should reevaluate your stance on genai with regards to how people are actually using it in their lives rather than paint over everyone's experience with your broad brush.

ai4ever2• 2 years ago

thats fair, "any generalization is almost always wrong"

but, gen-ai is not introducing a new mode to my day-to-day life. I would liken it to a calculator app. Sure, i use it sometimes, but, it is not changing my day in any significant way yet.

But ecommerce changed the way i shop, and the smartphone changed the way i transact, and consume info and entertainment

75% of founders in the latest Y Combinator cohort are working on AI startups

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