Regarding the AI vs human debate (see issues at SuccessFactor)

[Quick thread]

1) AI is a * prediction technology* that does NOT succeed 100% of the time

So it’s going to work for certain business use cases and fail for others

Something like this (low tech chart alert!):

2) Where AI works great: categorization problems that are not in real time where the stakes are low - if Google Photos doesn’t not recognize the pic of little Emma, nobody gets hurt

Where AI fails: needs to be 100% correct in real time or somebody dies - like self driving

3) Cases like accounting automation are tricky: you need to be 100% correct all the time, but since you don’t need to be correct in real time you can supplement with humans

4) What's difficult for entrepreneurs and investors alike is that, in the early stages of building the venture, you need a lot of humans to train the AI

The hope is that at some point, you go from 60/40 humans/AI (or whatever) to 90/10

But AI is capricious and unpredictable

5) So, regardless of whether the problem you picked is tractable with AI or not, you may get stuck on your way to automation

I have zero knowledge of the facts but, based on the quality of people around the table, I suspect this may have happened here: https://twitter.com/eringriffith/status/1285327407839207424