1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Viola Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: There’s a part that is very worrisome. Have you read Yuval Noah Harari’s most recent book, Nexus?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Viola Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. If you have more example, you can discuss them. I’m very interested in seeing what is actually fine traction in the customer base.

Daniel Cohen: I’m on the board of a company called Lightricks that is doing a lot of work in the text-to-video space. The text-to-video space is in the limelight after OpenAI released Sora. What we want to think about is, how can AI create not only a short clip, but a full 5-10 minute video? The big challenge is to get fast AI-created videos results, similar to how you can get a story in text within seconds.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Benjamin Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: So this is a question, Ben, time-wise. I know you’re passionate about food and the whole food-oriented lifestyle. What is your view about cooking?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Benjamin Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So coming back to what you said about the data not being a long-term defensible mode, my follow-up question on that is, what is in your view and in the portfolio that you are developing in this field, what are you envisioning as a defensible mode?

Benjamin Narasin: So my thesis or hypothesis is that this will be very similar to the early days of the web.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Benjamin Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital (Part 1)

Benjamin Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, discusses his AI investment point of view.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Venktesh Shukla, Founder and Managing Partner at Monta Vista Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Fair enough. What other AI companies have you invested in that are non generative AI? On our platform, we’ve been covering AI startups aggressively since 2016, long before generative AI hit the popular consciousness. And there are very substantial AI companies that have been built with AI, not necessarily generative AI. I do believe that there is a huge opportunity still in AI, not just generative AI.

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 loop, human in the loop is necessary, but not sufficient to control hallucination, especially in medical situations, where it really can be dangerous.

So those are good heuristics. Is there another case study that we can do?

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 capable of catching that?