Mortensen: x.ai has no backup plan to rely on human labor
Dennis Mortensen · Dennis Mortensen and Marcos Jimenez, x.ai // Your AI-powered Virtual Assistant · Nov 20, 2014 · at 4:39
Dennis Mortensen, founder and CEO of x.ai, outlines the company's commitment to fully automated AI rather than human-in-the-loop fallback labor.
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“What we kind of set out to do is to kind of create a setting for where there is no plan B. There is no kind of backup plan, and I know SoftBank kind of, you know, shit their pants whenever I say that, but there is no plan B of, ah, perhaps we can just have humans do this a little bit faster in the future.”
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