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8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2019 by Sean Gourley · said 5 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) Mar 19, 2019 · 5 mentions · from 0:07
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Mar 19, 2019

Assertion Supported

Gourley: Primer has raised $54M to date, led by Lux Capital

“And you know, we've raised about fifty-four million dollars to date, most notably led with a Series B by Lux based out of here in New York.”

Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 0:19 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

Mar 19, 2019 positive

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Gourley: Primer headline generator achieves 84% okay-or-better rating versus 87% for humans

“So on humans, we do about 87% are okay or better. At Primer we do about 84% are okay or better.”

Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 6:55 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

Mar 19, 2019

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Primer generated 40,000 new scientist profiles using RNNs and scientific papers

“So we took 30,000 scientists on Wikipedia and took their profiles as of January 18. And then input into this, we put 650,000 scientific papers and around 1.2 million news articles that talked about the scientists. And then we used an RNN-based generative model…”

Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 7:56 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

Mar 19, 2019 positive

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Gourley: Primer can condense 17,000 Russian documents into a one-page report

“We can take a set of 17,000 Russian language documents talking about Syria, and we can write a one-page report as an output.”

Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 2:56 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

Mar 19, 2019

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Gourley: Primer cut bank analyst report summary time, saving $6M

“We're able to reduce that down to about 25% of the time. And that nets out at about a six million dollar saving for that bank.”

Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 14:29 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

Mar 19, 2019 positive

Disclosure

Gourley: Primer counts GIC, Walmart, and US intelligence agencies as customers

“We've got some major customers that we can talk about, some that we can't but GIC is the biggest sovereign wealth fund out of Singapore. Walmart, obviously half a trillion of revenue, and also through our partnerships within Qtel we're deployed into a large nu…”

Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 2:12 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

Mar 19, 2019

Disclosure

Primer processes text natively across English, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic

“So we do this in not just English, but we do it in also Chinese, Russian, and new for us this year, Has been Arabic.”

Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 1:51 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

Mar 19, 2019 positive

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Gourley: Primer headlines beat human writers 29% of the time in side-by-side tests

“If we do this in a side-by-side comparison we can see around 20, 29 percent of the time primer is better and we can see around 44% of the time on the high-volume model that humans are better.”

Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 7:05 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

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