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What a stranger can verify about an AI business

2 pointsby 1h agosound.fan
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1h agoHN ↗

I wrote this after screening 100 XPRIZE projects and testing five. What surprised me was that I could independently reproduce some fairly complicated technical claims, but not basic claims like customer count or revenue. I'm starting to wonder where reproducibility ends and auditing has to begin.