Scholnick: Vertical AI will be more successful near-term than horizontal platforms
Dan Scholnick · Investing in Data and A.I. // Dan Scholnick, Trinity Ventures (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Jan 25, 2016 · at 13:52
Dan Scholnick, General Partner at Trinity Ventures, compares vertical domain-specific AI applications against horizontal platforms at Data Driven NYC in 2016.
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“But that's, I think unless we see more crowd flowers, the vertical approach is going to be a lot more successful in the near term because it won't rely on the customer to have expertise in how to do things like tune models and tune training sets and things like that.”
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