Investing into AI

[When AI is the Product: The Rise of AI-Based Consumer Apps](https://a16z.com/2018/12/03/when-ai-is-the-product-the-rise-of-ai-based-consumer-apps/) a16z, by	Connie Chan

- Benedict Evans [Ways to think about machine learning](https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/06/22/ways-to-think-about-machine-learning-8nefy) June 22, 2018

- [The idea maze for AI startups](http://cdixon.org/2015/02/01/the-ai-startup-idea-maze/) Chris Dixon

- a good review of [The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda](http://papers.nber.org/books/agra-1)

and in particular, [Neglected open questions in the economics of artificial intelligence](http://www.nber.org/chapters/c14032.pdf) by Tyler Cowen

- [Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases](https://blog.primer.ai/technology/2018/08/03/Quicksilver.html)

## copy and/or acquire strategy

- [Apple’s quiet AI acquisition](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2599/Fwd%2BApples%2Bquiet%2BAI%2Bacquisition.htm)

[BUILDINGAI IS HARD—SO FACEBOOK IS BUILDING AI THAT BUILDS AI](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2600/Building%2BAI%2BIs%2BHard_E2_80_94So%2BFacebook%2BIs%2BBuilding%2BAI%2BThat%2BBuilds%2BAI%2B_%2BWIRED.pdf)


## videos

[The End of Moore's Law & The Rise of AI](https://www.zeitgeistminds.com/talk/5005828742447104/the-end-of-moores-law-the-rise-of-ai-john-hennessey) John L. Hennessy is Chairman of the Board of Alphabet 

[The end of the beginning](https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/11/16/the-end-of-the-beginning)  in 2018 - Benedict Evans



## Criticisms

[Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2416/Is%2BAI%2BRiding%2Ba%2BOne-Trick%2BPony_%2B-%2BMIT%2BTechnology%2BReview.pdf)
> Just about every AI advance you’ve heard of depends on a breakthrough that’s three
> decades old.Keeping up the pace of progress [will require confronting AI’s serious limitations.](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608911/is-ai-riding-a-one-trick-pony/)
> by James Somers September 29, 2017

[China’s artificial intelligence ambitions hit hurdles](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2565/China_E2_80_99s%2Bartificial%2Bintelligence%2Bambitions%2Bhit%2Bhurdles%2B_%2BFinancial%2BTimes.pdf)
Investment drops as momentum fades

## approach 

[New Frontiers Beyond Risk and Uncertainty: Ignorance, Group Decision, and Unanticipated Themes](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/1693/Zeckhauser%2BPreface%2B-%2BRisk%2Band%2BUncertainty.pdf)
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