Mid-Autumn Festival does not work overtime! AI can also get a VC report

Alexander Crosson and Naveen Kulandaivelu

According to foreign media reports, recently, Alexander Crosson and Naveen Kulandaivelu are revealing signs to the public through the Disrupt Hackathon hackathon held in San Francisco - perhaps one day, our elite journalists will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Although they are not yet advanced enough to conduct independent investigations like real reporters, they may not be as responsible as real journalists, but it can be seen from the Crunch Letter that artificial intelligence has improved public access to some extent. The automation of news methods.

Publications such as TechCrunch and StrictlyVC, as well as the CrunchBase platform information, are carefully compiled by the editors. However, the machine learning experiment conducted by Alexander's team can do some simple data processing and calculation on venture capital with the help of Google's Tensor Flow artificial intelligence learning system, thus forming a partial venture report.

This tool uses unsupervised machine learning techniques to analyze CrunchBase's database, as well as articles and reports from various major venture publications in the market. It will immediately generate relevant news reports to guide venture capital firms and individual investors. Suggest.

As for the performance of this team, the two individuals have made some progress. They can make AI use 30 words to summarize the brief introduction of some companies, including the company's basic situation, financing status, products, services and other details.

Using artificial intelligence to solve the problem of venture capital, rather than looking for information from the network, this team is looking at the "generalization" capability of artificial intelligence. The venture publication is just the first step in the startup of this team. This model can be applied to many industries and topics. Although this artificial intelligence article still requires human supervision, its ability to handle big data is unquestionable. In time, until artificial intelligence is sufficiently experienced, it can use the huge data in the database to build a model and automate the review of data entries.

Now, this team is training its own system on the hackathon. This also means that with the help of 4 GPUs, using the API interface of TechCrunch and WordPress, 15,000 reports were produced. Alexander Crosson and Naveen Kulandaivelu hope that their team can attract more funds to deal with fierce market competition in the near future.

It must be mentioned that some time ago Facebook let AI take over some of the news sections, but the "not obedient" artificial intelligence pushed news of false news. The public can not help but wonder if the emergence of artificial intelligence in the news industry will lead to a decline in the credibility of the news. As Zuckerberg once said, the biggest problem facing artificial intelligence is that for people, what is the most important information. Whether or not AI can write venture journals like professional journalists in the future cannot be guaranteed. Even if it does this, how to make the public convinced is also a question that needs to be considered.

Via techcrunch