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Similar to "needs to be a platform" [0], another variant is "be a data company" where somehow the underpants gnomes will transform your moat of stored informati
by Terr_ 6d ago
Similar to "needs to be a platform" [0], another variant is "be a data company" where somehow the underpants gnomes will transform your moat of stored information into profit.
[0] Read: "Needs to be pitch-able to investors as a magical 1000x growth unicorn."
- fragmede 6d agoit's no longer a theory. google paid millions for spirit airlines' emails and internal messages to be used as training data for their AIs.
- ambicapter 6d agoGoogle already had the machine, this was just feeding the machine. 99% of companies do not have this machinery in place and probably wouldn't know where to start.
- Terr_ 6d agoYeah: Spirit Airlines didn't become ultra-awesome with the power of all its "data", it went bankrupt. I'm not sure on how much of the flight/sales/maintenance data is being used, versus simply a big archive of emails and support calls.
- fragmede 6d agoProbably by emailing google, meta, OpenAI, and Anthropocene, saying you have a dataset and asking if they'd be interested.
- dwaltrip 6d agoAfter they went bankrupt... right?