Google I/O 2017
Honestly, as someone who has been playing around with&#x2F;working with AI in some form (previously bayes nets etc...) since the 90s and trying since 2012 to build our computer vision company - every keynote from AFGAM makes me want to give up a little more each time.<p>It&#x27;s like even with a world class AI team the majors just blow past everyone with their on demand scale, access to data, hardware, people and distribution.<p>In the past three weeks the products that were shown at conferences (GTC, Build, I&#x2F;O) would have been 100 different independent companies, with very highly trained, specialized PhD level researchers and developers only 5 years ago. Now this stuff is just baked in to the top platforms.<p>This has been happening for a while, and I&#x27;ve been saying it for a while too. No clue where to go from here honestly.<p>edit: The point I didn&#x27;t make here but is subtext is that, IMO ML&#x2F;AI is the last frontier for technology (an IMO humanity) so if a few dominate it, its kind of game over for the existence of smaller players generally.