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Howard: Answer.ai aims to launch 5,000 successful products with 14 people
“If we're going to have 12 to 14 people create five to 10,000 extremely commercially successful products, we're going to have to be extremely efficient, you know, at every level.”
Howard: Answer.ai has completely diverged from mainstream academic AI research
“Quickly realized, actually, we've gotten so far off the, you know, academic normal research check now that No one cares about anything we care about on the whole and vice versa.”
Howard: Answer.ai team uses AI at a more advanced level than anyone else
“Definitely I feel like we are more, I can tell we're more advanced users of AI than anybody else, because people can keep complaining about all the problems with AI, and I'm always like, I don't have any of those problems, you know.”
Howard: Answer.ai operates with no offices, roles, or professional managers
“We're not going to have offices and departments. We don't, you know, we don't have any roles. We don't have any professional managers.”
Jeremy Howard: Humans and AI produce better results collaborating in shared environments
“Humans and computers work better together than separately, and then there are various things that kind of come out of that, and one key one, for example, is that the human and the computer should be able to see all of each other's work and be operating in the …”
Howard: Answer.ai is an Edison-inspired R&D lab, not a research lab
“So it's definitely not a research lab. This might sound minor, but it's an R and D lab, but they feel and look extremely different as was Edison's Menlo Park lab was an R and D lab.”
Answer.ai has 14 employees but aims to operate with only 12
“Yeah, maybe 14 now. 14 We're kind of aiming to be around 12. There was a couple of people we found we couldn't say no to.”