Saw a meme on this exact logical fallacy of the 'well-trained dog'.
Panel 1:
Human standing, arms out stretched in a shrug saying, "Why should I study science, biology, mathematics, and physics? It is useless, I will never use it. I will not be a scientist."
Panel 2:
Same human with a rageful expression saying, "5G gives cancer. Vaccines have Mind Control Chips for the new world order. The earth is flat. I saw it on YouTube."
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Albert Einstein credits the humanities with his successes in physics.
> "Otherwise he with his specialized knowledge—more closely resembles a well-trained dog than a harmoniously developed person. He must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions and their sufferings in order to acquire a proper relationship to individual fellow men and to the community. "
> "This is what I have in mind when I recommend the 'humanities' as important, not just dry specialized knowledge in the fields of history and philosophy."
> "Overemphasis on the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included."
> Also, you have to learn it right now, because otherwise it will be too late and you will be outdated, even though it is improving very fast allegedly.
This in general is a really weird behaviour that I come across a lot, I can't really explain it. For example, I use Python quite a lot and really like it. There are plenty of people who don't like Python, and I might disagree with them, but I'm not gonna push them to use it ("or else..."), because why would I care? Meanwhile, I'm often told I MUST start using AI ("or else..."), manual programming is dead, etc... Often by people who aren't exactly saying it kindly, which kind of throws out the "I'm just saying it out of concern for you" argument.
Imagine if normal engineering did that. Engineers invent a "blobby" thing that glues things together. It has amazing properties that increase productivity but sometimes it just stops working for some reason and comes off. It's totally random and because of how blobby is produced there is no way to tell when it's going to work or not, contrary to the typical material. Anyway we're going to use blobby to build everything from schools, to bridges, to airplanes now.
It's marketing, but if it's the truth, isn't it a public good to release information about this?
Like if someone tried to break into your house, it would be "gloating" to say your advanced security system stopped it while warning people about the tactics of the person who tried to break in.
I have a confession to make, I was about to downvote you because I thought you just asked ChatGPT to come up with some ridiculous company concepts and copy and pasted.
Then I saw the sibling comment and searched a couple of company names and realized they were real.
Have you seen the companies YC has been funding recently? All you need to do is mention AI and YC will throw some money your way. I don't know if you saw my first attempt at a post, but someone should suggest AI for HN comment formatting and I'm sure it will be funded.
Acrely — AI for HVAC administration
Aden — AI for ERP operations
AgentHub — AI for agent simulation and evaluation
Agentin AI — AI for enterprise agents
AgentMail — AI for agent email infrastructure
AlphaWatch AI — AI for financial search
Alter — AI for secure agent workflow access control
Altur — AI for debt collection voice agents
Ambral — AI for account management
Anytrace — AI for support engineering
April — AI for voice executive assistants
AutoComputer — AI for robotic desktop automation
Autosana — AI for mobile QA
Autotab — AI for knowledge work
Avent — AI for industrial commerce
b-12 — AI for chemical intelligence
Bluebirds — AI for outbound targeting
burnt — AI for food supply chain operations
Cactus — AI for smartphone model deployment
Candytrail — AI for sales funnel automation
CareSwift — AI for ambulance operations
Certus AI — AI for restaurant phone lines
Clarm — AI for search and agent building
Clodo — AI for real estate CRMs
Closera — AI for commercial real estate employees
Clueso — AI for instructional content generation
cocreate — AI for video editing
Comena — AI for order automation in distribution
ContextFort — AI for construction drawing reviews
Convexia — AI for pharma drug discovery
Credal.ai — AI for enterprise workflow assistants
CTGT — AI for preventing hallucinations
Cyberdesk — AI for legacy desktop automation
datafruit — AI for DevOps engineering
Daymi — AI for personal clones
DeepAware AI — AI for data center efficiency
Defog.ai — AI for natural-language data queries
Design Arena — AI for design benchmarks
Doe — AI for autonomous private equity workforce
Double – Coding Copilot — AI for coding assistance
EffiGov — AI for local government call centers
Eloquent AI — AI for complex financial workflows
F4 — AI for compliance in engineering drawings
Finto — AI for enterprise accounting
Flai — AI for dealership customer acquisition
Floot — AI for app building
Fluidize — AI for scientific experiments
Flywheel AI — AI for excavator autonomy
Freya — AI for financial services voice agents
Frizzle — AI for teacher grading
Galini — AI guardrails as a service
Gaus — AI for retail investors
Ghostship — AI for UX bug detection
Golpo — AI for video generation from documents
Halluminate — AI for training computer use
HealthKey — AI for clinical trial matching
Hera — AI for motion design
Humoniq — AI for BPO in travel and transport
Hyprnote — AI for enterprise notetaking
Imprezia — AI for ad networks
Induction Labs — AI for computer use automation
iollo — AI for multimodal biological data
Iron Grid — AI for hardware insurance
IronLedger.ai — AI for property accounting
Janet AI — AI for project management (AI-native Jira)
Kernel — AI for web agent browsing infrastructure
Kestroll — AI for media asset management
Keystone — AI for software engineering
Knowlify — AI for explainer video creation
Kyber — AI for regulatory notice drafting
Lanesurf — AI for freight booking voice automation
Lantern — AI for Postgres application development
Lark — AI for billing operations
Latent — AI for medical language models
Lemma — AI for consumer brand insights
Linkana — AI for supplier onboarding reviews
Liva AI — AI for video and voice data labeling
Locata — AI for healthcare referral management
Lopus AI — AI for deal intelligence
Lotas — AI for data science IDEs
Louiza Labs — AI for synthetic biology data
Luminai — AI for business process automation
Magnetic — AI for tax preparation
MangoDesk — AI for evaluation data
Maven Bio — AI for BioPharma insights
Meteor — AI for web browsing (AI-native browser)
Mimos — AI for regulated firm visibility in search
Minimal AI — AI for e-commerce customer support
Mobile Operator — AI for mobile QA
Mohi — AI for workflow clarity
Monarcha — AI for GIS platforms
moonrepo — AI for developer workflow tooling
Motives — AI for consumer research
Nautilus — AI for car wash optimization
NOSO LABS — AI for field technician support
Nottelabs — AI for enterprise web agents
Novaflow — AI for biology lab analytics
Nozomio — AI for contextual coding agents
Oki — AI for company intelligence
Okibi — AI for agent building
Omnara — AI for agent command centers
OnDeck AI — AI for video analysis
Onyx — AI for generative platform development
Opennote — AI for note-based tutoring
Opslane — AI for ETL data pipelines
Orange Slice — AI for sales lead generation
Outlit — AI for quoting and proposals
Outrove — AI for Salesforce
Pally — AI for relationship management
Paloma — AI for billing CRMs
Parachute — AI for clinical evaluation and deployment
PARES AI — AI for commercial real estate brokers
People.ai — AI for enterprise growth insights
Perspectives Health — AI for clinic EMRs
Pharmie AI — AI for pharmacy technicians
Phases — AI for clinical trial automation
Pingo AI — AI for language learning companions
Pleom — AI for conversational interaction
Qualify.bot — AI for commercial lending phone agents
Reacher — AI for creator collaboration marketing
Ridecell — AI for fleet operations
Risely AI — AI for campus administration
Risotto — AI for IT helpdesk automation
Riverbank Security — AI for offensive security
Saphira AI — AI for certification automation
Sendbird — AI for omnichannel agents
Sentinel — AI for on-call engineering
Serafis — AI for institutional investor knowledge graphs
Sigmantic AI — AI for HDL design
Sira — AI for HR management of hourly teams
Socratix AI — AI for fraud and risk teams
Solva — AI for insurance
Spotlight Realty — AI for real estate brokerage
StackAI — AI for low-code agent platforms
stagewise — AI for frontend coding agents
Stellon Labs — AI for edge device models
Stockline — AI for food wholesaler ERP
Stormy AI — AI for influencer marketing
Synthetic Society — AI for simulating real users
SynthioLabs — AI for medical expertise in pharma
Tailor — AI for retail ERP automation
Tecto AI — AI for governance of AI employees
Tesora — AI for procurement analysis
Trace — AI for workflow automation
TraceRoot.AI — AI for automated bug fixing
truthsystems — AI for regulated governance layers
Uplift AI — AI for underserved voice languages
Veles — AI for dynamic sales pricing
Veritus Agent — AI for loan servicing and collections
Verne Robotics — AI for robotic arms
VoiceOS — AI for voice interviews
VoxOps AI — AI for regulated industry calls
Vulcan Technologies — AI for regulatory drafting
Waydev — AI for engineering leadership insights
Wayline — AI for property management voice automation
Wedge — AI for healthcare trust layers
Workflow86 — AI for workflow automation
ZeroEval — AI for agent evaluation and optimization
Does android even have native OCR? Last I checked everything required an OCR app of varying quality (including windows/linux).
On ios/macos you can literally just click on a picture and select the text in it as if it wasn't a picture. I know for sure on iOS you don't even open an app to do it, just any picture you can select it.
Last I checked the Opensource OCR tools were decent but behind the closed source stuff as well.
Panel 1:
Human standing, arms out stretched in a shrug saying, "Why should I study science, biology, mathematics, and physics? It is useless, I will never use it. I will not be a scientist."
Panel 2:
Same human with a rageful expression saying, "5G gives cancer. Vaccines have Mind Control Chips for the new world order. The earth is flat. I saw it on YouTube."
.
Albert Einstein credits the humanities with his successes in physics.
> "Otherwise he with his specialized knowledge—more closely resembles a well-trained dog than a harmoniously developed person. He must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions and their sufferings in order to acquire a proper relationship to individual fellow men and to the community. "
> "This is what I have in mind when I recommend the 'humanities' as important, not just dry specialized knowledge in the fields of history and philosophy."
> "Overemphasis on the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included."
https://www.nytimes.com/1952/10/05/archives/einstein-stresse...