Domingos: Startups Can Dominate by Applying Basic ML to Untapped Industries
Pedro Domingos · #13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines · Aug 30, 2016 · at 32:11
Computer scientist Pedro Domingos explains startup opportunities in machine learning despite the dominance of incumbent tech giants.
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“Precisely because machine learning is something that can be used just about everywhere, right? In every single industry, in every single part of what a company does, So far, it's only been used for a small fraction of the things that it could be used for. So you could do a startup that comes in and does machine learning for X, where nobody has really done machine learning for X before, and they could just run away with it. Even if initially, their learning algorithms are not the most advanced ones, they're just picking the low hanging fruit, you could actually get a lot of mileage that way.”
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