What’s crazier is people thinking it’s a good enough idea to get $185,000,000 in funding for someone who just graduated college…
Like, it already exists, there’s a bunch of those already.
She slapped “AI” on the front of it but because her name is Gates people won’t stop throwing money at it. If she doesn’t understand her name is why she’s getting funding, that just means she’s both ignorant and naive and this is an even worse investment and product than it seems on the surface.
I’m sure the Gates named helped, but AI anything has venture capitalists punching the Fry meme. It feels very similar to the dot com era bubble in a macro sense, except without a large number jobs being created.
There are a million of these out there. Most of them suck. Many are, at best, ethically gray. Even the better ones spy on you in a hundred different ways.
I’d love something that actually didn’t suck, but “185 million dollar AI startup” doesn’t sound promising to me.
The big problem with the concept is that there’s money to be made by gaming the system and nobody is good at that cat and mouse game. AI could theoretically help, but let’s be real: it’s just going to scrape the same 100 identical Amazon referral listicles you’d get in a Google search, with an extra sprinkling of ads.
They just slap the word AI on it so investors pp’s become the big pp.
My little brother works for a supply company, and one of the companies they supply has a new ‘AI’ tool where folks type in the thing they want and it pulls from other companies to find the lowest price, then color codes it and shit. The supply companies have to put their prices in a database for the ‘AI’. All I could think hearing about it is that some C level got absolutely fucking bamboozled.
That’s all they’re for. The last time I heard any executive actually make a good decision - or even anything in the neighborhood of a good decision - was . . . Ummmm. Well, I’m sure it was sometime this century. ? Maybe.
So it’s a price checker extension. That scrapes other websites for better deals.
I feel like this is just a plug piece to spotlight her product tbh.
What’s crazier is people thinking it’s a good enough idea to get $185,000,000 in funding for someone who just graduated college…
Like, it already exists, there’s a bunch of those already.
She slapped “AI” on the front of it but because her name is Gates people won’t stop throwing money at it. If she doesn’t understand her name is why she’s getting funding, that just means she’s both ignorant and naive and this is an even worse investment and product than it seems on the surface.
I’m sure the Gates named helped, but AI anything has venture capitalists punching the Fry meme. It feels very similar to the dot com era bubble in a macro sense, except without a large number jobs being created.
If a random 23 year old can just take any type of plugin that’s been around 20+ years, slap AI in front of it…
And raises $185,000,000…
Why exactly do you think they’re not all doing it?
Thats a rhetorical question by the way, the rest of them aren’t doing it because their last name isn’t Gates so it wouldn’t work
There are a million of these out there. Most of them suck. Many are, at best, ethically gray. Even the better ones spy on you in a hundred different ways.
I’d love something that actually didn’t suck, but “185 million dollar AI startup” doesn’t sound promising to me.
The big problem with the concept is that there’s money to be made by gaming the system and nobody is good at that cat and mouse game. AI could theoretically help, but let’s be real: it’s just going to scrape the same 100 identical Amazon referral listicles you’d get in a Google search, with an extra sprinkling of ads.
They just slap the word AI on it so investors pp’s become the big pp.
My little brother works for a supply company, and one of the companies they supply has a new ‘AI’ tool where folks type in the thing they want and it pulls from other companies to find the lowest price, then color codes it and shit. The supply companies have to put their prices in a database for the ‘AI’. All I could think hearing about it is that some C level got absolutely fucking bamboozled.
That’s all they’re for. The last time I heard any executive actually make a good decision - or even anything in the neighborhood of a good decision - was . . . Ummmm. Well, I’m sure it was sometime this century. ? Maybe.
Yup. Price comparison extensions have been around for decades already.