[edblarney]

This seems to be breaking the YC 'golden rule' which I think is 'do something useful'.

AI is an approach, it's not a solution.

I think AI is going to make it's way into 'everything' but rather incrementally.

I'm weary that there will be a lot of 'pure AI' type companies around.

Surely, there'll be a few that are 'AI focused' ... but it's all so techie and not so much 'market' or 'solution' oriented it leaves me a little skeptical.

AirBnB, Stripe, Zenefits, Instacart, Docker, Mixpanel - all big YC companies focusing on solutions - I can barely see how AI would apply to any of them, other than maybe some incremental improvements on things like 'fraud detection' or what not. Ok, maybe some marketing conversion.

No doubt YC is making a good call here because they want to reap the rewards of all the resulting M&A activity, which I think will be a boon ...

But it's interesting nontheless.