Wang: Scale AI prioritizes enterprise AI over consumer apps due to privacy
Alexandr Wang · Evaluating AI threats & opportunities (ScaleAI's Alexandr Wang & Intel’s Lama Nachman) · Jul 23, 2024 · at 33:02
Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang explains his strategic preference for enterprise AI deployments over consumer products to avoid thorny privacy dilemmas.
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“This is one of the reasons why for the current brand of AI technology, I'm actually much more focused on the B to B and the enterprise applications of the technology, much more so than the consumer applications, because I think in the consumer applications, we have to reckon with, you know multiple decades of relatively lax perspective in the technology industry on privacy.”
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