On: GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicat...

[tylerrobinson]

A YC company called Roundtable tried to do this.[1]

The comments were not terribly supportive. They’ve since pivoted to a product that does survey data cleaning.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865625

[AnthonBerg → tylerrobinson]

A social science experiment in and of itself. A fine thread of tragedy in the rich tapestry of enterprise.

[janalsncm → tylerrobinson]

Products like this make me pretty cynical about VCs’ ability to evaluate novel technical products. Any ML engineer who spent 5 minutes understanding would have rejected the pitch.

[rytill → janalsncm]

I’m an ML engineer who’s spent more than 5 minutes thinking about this idea and would not have automatically rejected the pitch.

[janalsncm → rytill]

There are so many basic questions raised in the Launch HN thread that didn’t have good answers. It indicates to me that YC didn’t raise those questions, which is a red flag.