On: Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who d...

[nradov]

There are so many of those fake AI startups now that you could probably build a successful startup specifically to provide offshore human staffing services and workflow automation to them. During a gold rush, sell shovels.

[derefr → nradov]

...and then lower your costs by building a real AGI to pretend to be humans pretending to be AI.

(Has anyone done this particular sci-fi plot?)

[spaceknarf → derefr]

Yes, in the book Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark! (An AGI is implemented that makes money on Amazon Mechanical Turk.)

[spaceman_2020 → nradov]

I pitched a local language startup idea to a few companies. I was summarily tolf that it didn't have any "zing" to it. So I added "AI" in all my pitches and got a lot of interest.

Didn't pursue the idea further because I didn't really believe in it, but it just proved to me that investors often chase buzzwords instead of ideas

[Qworg → nradov]

There are a few of these already - Mechanical Turk is the most famous.

[nautical → nradov]

https://testzap.com does exactly that for app testing, although there are few products in market claiming to do AI based testing.

[Havoc → nradov]

There was an article on here like two days ago about a company in Kenya that does training sets for big tech. 1000s of people marking cars on pictures etc