EP 06 - Tristan Rouillard - co-Founder at Hasty.ai - Your Competitive Advantage Comes From a Great Data Asset

The Data Driven Podcast was joined by Tristan Rouillard, a co-Founder of Hasty.ai. Hasty.ai supports vision AI practitioners and their evolving needs by developing best-in-class vision AI tools that are supported by a community of machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software developers. (A shout out to the incredible Head of Operations at Hasty.ai, Lisa Wantig, for helping to make this possible.) Some of the topics that Tristan and I discussed: The genesis of the idea for Hasty came from the founders' own experiences Manual image labeling and just how time-consuming that is The idea was NOT to change the technology but to change the process The necessity to bring the neural networks into the process earlier on The importance of having a clean data set With Hasty, one is not looking for mistakes in the dataset, but fixing the ones the neural network has found There is no substitute for a ground-truth data set When you are building a product, you are looking for ‘love’ and ‘wow’ Hasty is changing a process and that is the hardest thing to change Bringing agile methodology to machine learning How sometimes the biggest competition is the status quo Taking domain-specific assets and leveraging them in a good way Data ownership and one of Hasty’s USPs It is likely that the training data is the differentiator, not the neural network The nuance and complexity of image recognition is yet to be understood The need for data documentation Hasty is teaching machines how to identify and see the world the same way we do Everybody that joins Hasty has to label a data asset The quote from Alan Nichol, a co-Founder and the CTO of Rasa, came from this LinkedIn post.