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Comment by personjerry | Hacker News Reader

How exactly does this "democratize" AI? Doesn't this only potentially prop up another AI company with the hope that YC will be backing it (and thus profit from its success)?

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It just seems like "democratize" is one of those new startup buzzwords. But yes, it seems like really what they want to do is bring it to market, and by democratize, they mean have everyone buy it.

Yep, No one was taking "disrupt" serious anymore, so they needed a new word to strip from its meaning.

It's official. HN has disturbed democratization.

Did you mean 'disrupt'? Hadn't heard of "disturb" before used in startup lingo.

I like it.

"How This Startup Is Disturbing The Equipment Financing Market"

"A startup is disturbing the consulting industry"

"16 Startups Poised to Disturb the Education Market"

Woops, meant to say disrupt of course.

I'm not a buzzword historian but I'm fairly sure "democratize" has been around for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization_of_technology

Wouldn't a "third AI company" be a net positive for society? Especially if it wasn't tied to a large network of other interests/products like the existing ones are? The biggest risk right now is that a select few companies are buying up every single company that "does AI" which massively limits the market.

What would prevent this company from being bought up? And is "select few" and "select few +1" all that different?

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