AJ Shankar: AI products must act as transparent partners, not black boxes
AJ Shankar · a16z Podcast | The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups · Jan 2, 2019 · at 20:19
AJ Shankar (co-founder of Everlaw) explains why enterprise machine learning tools require transparency and human-AI collaboration to gain adoption in fields like legal tech.
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“Yeah, I mean, the key thing you want to do is, is present the AI as a partner in the human, in the humans, in the people's endeavors, you know, what they're trying to do. This is something that's going to help you, you're going to work with it, and when you do that, of course, you need a lot of trust.”
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