An Interview With Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about the Democratization of AI

There’s a lot of speculation and rhetoric these days about whether AI democratizes creativity or advances it. However, it is abundantly clear to me that both are true.

On the one hand, humanity’s creative confidence for humanity has gone up as people of all ages are able to prompt whatever is in their mind’s eye and express themselves visually. We’... See more

What we realized with this company in particular is that it’s machine learning, so its main sustenance is data. Unless it has data, it will not work. It can’t exist in a vacuum, it’s not like Instagram where filters work from day one, regardless of the number of users. Our filters this time only work when you have hundreds of thousands of people u

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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