Oh, For Fucking Christ, Another “AI Missing Link”

Right. So, Edo Liberty, the guy from Pinecone – you know, *that* vector database company everyone and their mother is building now – apparently graced TechCrunch Disrupt with his presence. And what profound wisdom did he bestow upon us? That enterprise AI isn’t about bigger models (shocking!), it’s about… wait for it… data quality and “ground truth.”

Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. Like anyone thought you could just shove garbage in and get useful results out. He’s pushing this idea of a “data flywheel” – basically, getting humans to label enough data so the AI doesn’t completely hallucinate all over your business processes. He’s launching some new product called ‘Pilot’ that is supposed to help with this labeling process. It’s more tooling around data annotation, and frankly, it feels like a solution looking for a problem because *everyone* already knows good data is crucial.

The whole thing reeks of “we built a really cool database, now we need to find a bigger market than just being the plumbing.” He’s talking about needing to move beyond ‘proof-of-concept’ AI and into actual ROI. Groundbreaking stuff. Seriously. They’re also trying to make it easier for non-technical people to get involved in data labeling – because apparently, expecting someone with domain expertise is too much to ask.

Honestly? It’s a lot of marketing fluff around something that should be baseline expectation for anyone even *thinking* about deploying AI. Don’t fall for it. Just clean your damn data and stop wasting money on shiny new toys.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of garbage in, garbage out… I once had a sysadmin try to tell me the network was down because “the internet broke.” The ‘internet’ being a single ethernet cable he hadn’t plugged into his machine. Some people just shouldn’t be allowed near computers, and some companies shouldn’t be allowed to take your money.

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