1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Venktesh Shukla, Founder and Managing Partner at Monta Vista Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are there any other portfolio companies that you would like to discuss? What you’ve just provided is a good framework – Generative AI hallucination is acceptable without human in the loop if it’s non mission critical. If it is mission critical, we need human in the loop. But even with human in the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Venktesh Shukla, Founder and Managing Partner at Monta Vista Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Understood, but now let’s switch that to a different case study. Let’s look at the medical domain, which is very high potential for Generative AI. There is so much medical information on which you can train physicians, telemedicine providers, etc. However, if that starts to hallucinate, is the human in the loop completely

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Venktesh Shukla, Founder and Managing Partner at Monta Vista Capital (Part 1)

Venktesh Shukla, Founder and Managing Partner at Monta Vista Capital, discusses why he wants to see Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI startups. We’re hearing this a lot right now.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Investor Gus Tai (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: As an aside, I think the human-centric aspect of AI can actually turn out to be a very beneficial factor in healthcare, just because it’s a natural propensity for human beings who are in need of care to want another human being to be taking care of them; not a robot, not a

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Investor Gus Tai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Now, I’m going to take this logic a little bit in uncharted territory. I think the most important impact of AI is in healthcare. We’re going to have a planet of 10 billion people to service from a healthcare perspective. So let’s just do back of the envelope Math. Let’s just assume that

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Investor Gus Tai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So, coming back to entrepreneurship and investment in tech ventures, for the last 30 years that the venture capital industry has been active, as an industry, we have said services companies such as ad agencies, marketing agencies, IT services, legal services, architectural services, and wealth management services are not venture fundable companies. These

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Investor Gus Tai (Part 1)

At a recent roundtable, we had Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures discuss the implications of human-centric AI, white spaces, comparables, and more.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Gaurav Chaturvedi, Partner at Kae Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: And what are you seeing on the BPO side? BPO is the lowest hanging fruit for AI to automate. This discussion that we just had applies very well to BPO, right? You can automate a very large part of what is being done in a human BPO mode. A lot of that can

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